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10 Amb. Abdalla Ahmed 50 Can you fight a conspiracy, 4 W Qrld Bank tightens noose Abdalla if you say it doesn't exist? on Russia; resistance grows The ambassador to the United Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From The World Bank's austerity policy States from the Republic of Sudan, Wrong: MoralIlliteracy and the for Russia is causing a kind of Dr. Abdalla has served as minister Case for CharacterEducation, by patriotic nationalist backlash of agriculture, food, and natural William Kilpatrick. against the West, from the military resources. He holds a doctoral hardliners and industrialists like degree in plant physiology, and has 52 Classical songbooks open Ar dy Volsky. taught on the agriculture faculty of � path to Mozart, I the University of Khartoum. Mendelssohn, Italian songs 6 The spreading web of Three collections edited by John Geprge Soros Glenn Paton: 26 Italian Songs and The geopolitical profileof a fast­ Departments Arias; 24 Songs by Mendelssohn; rising Hungarian-American 12 Songs by Mozart. financier. 47 Report from Bonn Scandals target Kissinger's friends. 54 Handel's way to learn 10 Sudan's farmers achieve figured bass grain surplus, send food 57 Music Views and Reviews Continuo Playing According to relief abroad Singing and the French horn. Handel: His Figured Bass Part 1 of an interview with Amb. Exercises, with a commentary by Abdalla Ahmed Abdalla. 72 Editorial David Ledbetter. Nationalize the Federal Reserve. 15 HOiW Ibero-America can become an economic superpower Photo credits: Cover, pages 26, A presentation by Ibero-American 29, 34, 35, 63, StuartLew is. Pages Editor Dennis Small to the founding 11, 14, Ministry of Information, conference of the Ibero-American Republic of Sudan. Page 16, Solidarity Movement. UNICEF/Claudio Edinger. Page 25, Lamar Pittman. Page 27, 19 Banking Stanley Ezro!. Page 41, Philip Ro� from the poor to give to the Ulanowsky. Page 44,U.N. Photo. rich. Page 53, Alfred Publishing Company. 19 Wine speculators heading fora bust

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36 Pressure on Croatia marks 58 Will there justice under countdown to World War Bill Clinton?bIe III On the fourth anniversary of the Helga Zepp-LaRouche warns that politically moti!Vatedincarceration "the short fuse for an of Lyndon LaRouche, the incoming internationalizationof the war in Clinton admini$tration is faced with the Balkans has almost reached its an opportunity to right this detonator. " injustice, free the political prisoner, and oust the real criminals from the A march and vigil outside the White House in Wash­ 38 Germans weigh military Justice Department. ington' D.C. on Jan. 27, 1993, the fourth anniversary of Lyndon LaRouche's imprisonment. With the new action against Serbia administration in total disarray, the one bold move Michael Liebig reports from 60 High court approves Clinton could make to take back control of the agenda Wiesbaden on the options for execution of innocent would be to free economist LaRouche. Germany in this strategic crisis. The shocking verdict in the case of Leonel Torres IHerrera. 24 Clinton's choice: Free 39 'Friends of Schiller' meet Documentation: Excerpts from the LaRouche or suffer in Croatian capital U.S. Supreme Court record. disaster If the new President persists in 40 Billington tour in Mexico 61 Clinton ex�ands death obeying Wall Street's demands for penalty for unborn greater austerity, he will find builds support to free LaRouche Documentati.: From the homily himself having the shortest political of Cardinal JoijnO' Connor, honeymoon on record. Documentation: Mexican press coverage of Gail Billington's tour; a archbishop of New York, statement from Michael Billington commemorati g the 20th 26 Who's who in the Clinton � to the peopleof Mexico. anniversary of�oe v. Wade. administration 43 Mench6 delivers death 65 The 'Octo�r Surprise' sentence to Guatemala scandal: anatomy of a coverup 45 Time to probe the dealings of Australia's lsi Leibler 68 Congressiop,al Closeup The president of the World Jewish Congress is taking a high profilein 70 National News Asia. Will Dope, Inc. be far behind?

48 International Intelligence �ilillEconoIDics

World Bank tightens noose on Russia; resistanqe grows I

by Denise Henderson

The outcome of the policy brawl which is now raging among well as its specificity of experience, its immense territory, Russia's ruling circles will determine whether or not Russia and its particular problems o� infrastructure development. will survive economically, politically, and strategically. The Vol sky and the other members of the Union, which large­ central issue is that the leadership is facing an economy which ly represents state enterprisesltied into the military-industrial has become more and more thoroughly destroyed over the complex, have thus indicatedithat they will not sit still much past year, thanks to the policies of Harvard's punk "econo­ longer for what Speaker of th� Supreme Soviet Ruslan Khas­ mist" Jeffrey Sachs and the austerity conditionalities of the bulatov has called the "Latin Americanization" of Russia International Monetary Fund (IMF). At the end of 1992, which he said "has taken pl�ce. in the sphere of economic officialunemployment in Russia, due mostly to the shutdown reforms this entire year." of state-owned industries, was up to at least half a million. On Jan. 26, Arkady Volsky, the head of the Russian Euthanasia for a nation? Union of Industrialists, who is close to Prime Minister Cher­ It seems, however, that rather than sensing the potential nomyrdin and some military-industrial circles, made public for revolt against their economic programs, the western fi­ his opposition to Sachs and the IMF policies. In an article nancial institutions are now moving in to implement a second which appeared in the Paris daily Le Figaro, Vol sky stressed phase of their destruction of the Russian economy, this time that the Union had been formed to "defend the interest of in the guise of "financial aid�' from the World Bank, which industrialists" and that now, in the 1990s, the group's main held an open house to anno�nce its permanent mission in activity is to lobby, both within Russia and abroad, for the Moscow the week of Jan. 18. "reinforcement of the International Union of Industrialists" On that occasion, the helldof the World Bank mission, which latter exists in 20 countries, including the 15 nations Ardy Stoutjesdijk, was introduced to the Russian business of the former Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and community. Stoutjesdijk, fr

4 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 that for some medical conditions there are no alternatives profitswill go to the World Bank to pay it back for its "help" but drastic measures. And unfortunately this is the case in in putting Russia's petroleum industry back on its feet. economics as well. . . . The governmentof the Russian Fed­ eration may have no choice" but to accept financial aid from Enough is enough the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund-on As Lyndon LaRouche emphasized on Jan. 27 in his week­ the conditions offered. Although he did not say so at such ly interview "EIR Talks with Lyndon LaRouche": 'The Jef­ a polite gathering, these conditionalities will destroy what frey Sachs policy for eastern Europe and the former Soviet remains of Russia's economy in both the private and state Union is not only not working and cou�d never have worked, sectors. but is causing a kind of patriotic nationalist backlash against the West, throughout the hardliners, ,as not limited to but Target: the oil industry reflectedby the military leadership. Khasbulatov's term "Latin Americanization" is most rel­ "Russia's military leadership and many Russian voices evant here. In this instance, the World Bank is aiming at are saying that the Anglo-American empire is collapsing, Russia's oil industry, which, most experts agree, could be that the United States is rapidly disintegrating as a world highly profitable, if it were to receive badly needed invest­ power, will not have power much longer, and are saying that ment in equipment and processing facilities. But Stoutjes­ therefore, while they are in reduced circumstances strategi­ dijk's aim, as has been the aim of the IMF and World Bank cally, yet they have reached the point that they are no longer in breaking up Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex, is going to tolerate in 1993 what they freely submitted to, with­ to increase energy prices inside Russia, to force an internal holding all their objections, in 1990, 1991, and 1992." decrease of consumption of energy, while raising Russia's "Thus," warned LaRouche, "Clinton faces the fact that selling price of oil within the former Comecon countries. the Russian Empire is coming back rapidly, and coming back As Stoutjesdijk explained it, "We findthat in many coun­ because U.S. policy and Anglo-American policy toward the tries, particularly in countries that produce oil, the prices entire world, including the former Soviet Union, over the charged for energy are often extremely low. This has several past years, 1990 through 1992, has been criminally stupid. economic disadvantages. If the price is excessively low, we They have done all the things they Slhould not have done. tend to get overconsumption. And in a country such as Rus­ They have thrown away the greatest opportunity in 20th­ sia, for example, consumption of energy is much higher than century history for some kind of world stability and security. in other countries of a similar level of income." They blew it! And Clinton is coming in apparently continuing In the mind of a financial bloodsucker such as Stoutjes­ to adhere to the Bush policy. And Wlith that circumstance, dijk and the international financial interests that he repre­ with the U.S. economy collapsing, the Russians, knowing sents: "The problem with that is that oil or gas is a commodity it, say, 'We don't have to put up withthis any more. We're that one can easily sell in the internationalmark et. If a lot of now going to start coming out in the qpen. ' Therefore, Yelt­ oil is consumed domestically beyond what is really neces­ sin is under tremendous pressure fnl>m this faction in the sary, less is available for export. And that means that less Russian establishment, which is saying, 'We won't put up foreign exchange is available to purchase other efficient or with it anymore.' " useful things. We therefore often talk to governments about It is that strategic outlook which ,must inform any eco­ the desirability of increasing energy prices from time to time. nomic overtures to Russia on the part of the westernnatio ns. Particularly, if the government is interested in having the The way out of the world economic mess is not going to be World Bank finance extended oil production." for the United States to continue to liuPport a World Bank "We fully realize that this is oftenvery difficult," contin­ and IMF whose polices have already turnedlarge sections of ued Stoutjesdijk, but "we also know that it is very desirable." Africa into a graveyard and are having the same effect in He admitted, "These discussions then often give us pretty Ibero-America. The way out, rather,! is to support the joint bad publicity, because we are often accused of not being development of Europe and Asia, particularlyAsia; to put an sensitive to the consequences of higher energy prices on the end to the superPower gamesof breakiingup into ever-smaller consumer. " pieces the former Soviet Union. Sucb a plan will ultimately Stoutjesdijk is not proposing to increase Russia's infra­ backfire, since the Russian military-iIndustrial complex rec­ structure so that it could work out state-to-state deals with ognizes that it will gain nothing by destroying its own econo­ other former Soviet republics such as Latvia, Estonia, Lithu­ my internally. ania, Armenia, and other former Comecon countries which In such a strategic situation, LaRouche's proposal of a need energy; rather, the World Bank's parasitical operations Paris-Berlin-Vienna Productive TriaJilgle for high-technolo­ require that only those countries that can afford to meet the gy infrastructure and industry development is the means for bank's outrageous conditions receive energy; as for the oth­ avoiding a returnto a Cold War, whicn could rapidly escalate ers-they can simply freeze to death. To add insult to injury, into a world war-with the IMF and the World Bank largely Russia will never receive a dime from such an endeavor; all to blame.

EIR February 5, 1993 Economics 5 The spreading web of George Soros Can one person be a rapacious speculator and a seyzess philanthropist?Scott Thompson traces the geopolitical prQ/ile qfajast-rising Hungarian-American.

Last September, financial manager George Soros was among But like many things about Mr. Soros, the superficial impres­ the leading figures whose currency speculation against the sion misleads. Expert observers say the actual target was British pound and the Italian lira wrecked the European Ex­ Germany and secondarily France, the key nations for realiz­ change Rate Mechanism (ERM). In the process of this de­ ing a Eurasian economic reQOvery effort strong enough to bauched manipulation of the derivatives market, Soros pock­ resist Anglo-American finam;ial looting. Soros has made eted between $1 and $2 billion. Before 1992 was out, Soros clear in his writings, like his i 1991 book , Underwriting De­ embarked on a spree of unheralded bounty, endowing a net­ mocracy, that he considers 3i Europe in which Germany is work of foundations in 19 countries in central and eastern hegemonic to be the most darigerous outcome of the revolu­ Europe. tion of 1989. Informed sources report Soros may have been No doubt, western Europe was badly weakened, espe­ "leaked" details of how much money the Bundesbank, Ger­ cially at its Franco-German core; but did eastern Europe many's central bank, was pntpared to spend to prop up the gain? Is Mr. Soros a computer-age Robin Hood, robbing two weakest European currencies in the run-up to the French the haves in order to rllin largesse on the have-nots? Or is vote on Sept. 19 on the Maa�richt Treaty. Using leveraged something less amiable afoot, something with its own appall­ loans, Soros raised $40 billion to outspend the Germans. ing logic, in which even George Soros may be a pawn? How? While his exact gains fromthe currency market depreda­ A speculator like Soros is. able to borrow on a margin of tions are unknown, estimates of Soros's loot are astronomi­ 5%, borrowing $1 billion fOl1j ust $50 million. The lira fell cal. According to the Jan. 2-3, 1993 issue of the London from 765 to the deutschemark to 980 in September, providing Financial Times, "He bet heavily against ERM and won $2 a 28% profit. But with 20:1i leverage, a trader like Soros billion. " could have made 20 times the 28 %, or 560%-$280 million The New York Times reported Oct. 27, "The Hungarian­ on an investment of $50 milli�n. American financierGeorge Soros made a profitof almost $1 Who would give Soros such favorable rates? Informed billion during last month's devaluation of the British pound sources, again, report that S�ros is backed by the Mossad by betting heavily the currency would collapse despite gov­ (Israeli foreign intelligence) '¥ld the resources of the Zionist ernmentassuran ces. apparatus in the world finan(,:ial community. Soros's own "In an interviewreported todayin the Times of London, Mr. operations-such as the Quantum Fund--operatein offshore Soros said he had borrowed heavily to take his stand against dirty money laundromats like the Netherlands Antilles and the pound because he was confident the German Bundesbank Macao. Soros is also reportedly close to the New York Feder­ wanted devaluations in Britain and Italy, but not in France. In al Reserve Bank, especially jts recently resigned head E. the weeks leading up to Sept. 16, known as Black Wednesday Gerald Corrigan. The New Y QrkFederal Reserve Bank keeps inBritain, Mr. Sorossold pounds,betting $10 billion that Prime a pulse-beat reading on global currency markets, and fre­ Minister John Major would fail to keep the currency above its quently intervenes. European sources suggest that Corrigan's floor in Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism. sudden exit after Soros's raid on the pound and the lira may "He won, and Mr. Major lost. The onslaught of currency be related to reports that the New York Fed was involved in speculators forced Mr. Major to pull the pound out of the the speculative orgy. European Community's system for regulating the value of the community's national currencies." Spreading the largesse ' George Soros oversees a web of foundations in central Germany was the target and eastern Europe, spun offh/isoriginal Open Society Fund, It would appear on the surface that the victim of George founded in 1979. Following !his usurious gains in western Soros's runs on the pound and the lira was primarily Britain. currency markets, he has dolexlout large sums of money for

6 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 a variety of causes: nize Macedonia is now. Why must we always wait until • On Dec. 9, Soros announced the creation of the $100 conflict actually breaks out before we �t." Soros established million International Science Foundation for the Former the Open Society Fund of Macedoni. in August 1992. Soviet Union. The announcement was made by Soros in These causes sound benign enough. But Mr. Soros's phi­ Washington and Dr. Boris G. Saltykov, deputy prime minis­ lanthropy sows a huge debt of gratitude in Russia, ex-Yugo­ ter of the Russian Federation, in Moscow. Soros said: "The slavia, and the old Soviet satellites. May we not suspect that scientificculture in the former Soviet Union is threatened by it will be harvested by creating new targets for the Anglo­ the collapse of the economies of that region. The purpose of American speCUlative thievery in which Soros himself ex­ this foundation will be to reverse deterioration of scholarly cels-in the name of the "open society"? professions in these states, to preserve scientific excellence were it exists, and to create a more open system of organiza­ The open society of Sir Karl Popper tion and financingof fundamental research and science edu­ To test this hunch, let us examine oursub ject's intellectu­ cation." The foundation will be administered by a board of al pedigree. George Soros, a Hungarian-bornAmerican Jew, directors of leading international scientists. One of its goals is a protege of Sir Karl Popper, the high priest of postwar is to "apply new methods of science funding to encourage Aristotelian ideology, whom Soros met while a student at the science professionals to remain active in their native coun­ Fabian Society's London School of Economics. In Under­ tries." (This seems to be a response to the scare about Soviet writing Democracy, Soros recounts: scientists selling the secrets of weapons of mass destruction "I had approached the crisis in eastern Europe with a abroad.) Again, the fact sheet states: "Additional financial well-developed set of ideas about how societies work and resources will be sought from government and private how they change ....I formulated it 'firstas a student at the sources in the U. S. and other industrialized countries; Euro­ London School of Economics in the 1950s. At that time, I pean and Japanese participation will be particularly wel­ had just left Hungary, which had come under Soviet domina­ comed." tion, and I was preoccupied with the differences between the • On Dec. 18, Soros announced that he was giving "the closed social system I wanted to get away from and the open biggest private donation ever made to an international hu­ one I had chosen to live in. I was greatly influenced by the manitarian cause" by donating $50 million for Bosnian sup­ philosophy of Karl Popper and to a lesser extent by the free­ port aid. The money is to be administered by the United market views of Friedrich Hayek. I had finished my courses Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Initial allocations in two years and I had a third to wait!before the degree was were to go to several private voluntary organizations, includ­ conferred on me. I used that opportunity in 1952-53 to submit ing Save the Children Fund Alliance, Medecins sans Fron­ some essays to Popper, and I continu¢d to develop my ideas Heres (Doctors without Borders), the International Rescue while working firstin London and then in New York. Eventu­ Committee, and Oxfam. The title of the program is An Ap­ ally, I gave up philosophy and devoted myself to making peal for Security in Bosnia, and the board of advisers to money." U.N. High Commissioner Sadako Ogata will include former Except for the later addition of some of the more overtly U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Prince Sadruddin lunatic ideas of "chaos theory" from physics, Soros traces his Aga Khan and the president of the CarnegieEndowment for entire theory of "open" and "closed" $ocieties to his tutelage InternationalPeace , Ambassador Morton Abramowitz. under Karl Popper. The "open society" is Popper's model of • On Jan. 5, Soros announced a $25 million revolving a "free market of ideas" in a value-ftee society. Value-free loan to the government of the Republic of Macedonia means hostile to the Platonic outlook in Augustinian Chris­ (Makedonija), earmarked for purchasing heating oil and oth­ tianity, by which every human indiv.dual has sacred rights, er urgent needs the country has to survive through the winter. startingwith the right to life. In the press statement, Soros is quoted: "The government The British Aristotelian Society \ which Popper domi­ of Macedonia is a coalition of moderate Macedonians and nated since the war, has argued that the Athenians were right Albanians. It is trying very hard to preserve a multi-ethnic to execute Socrates for having enga�d the youth of Athens society, but is threatened from all sides: Macedonian extrem­ in the search for the truth and the good. From such premises, ists on one side, Albanian extremists on the other; the present the British Aristotelian Society has fought every leader fur­ Yugoslav governmenthas a great interest in fomenting trou­ thering human progress by Socrates' method, down to the ble and the Greek governmentseems intent on preventing an present. Indeed, Popper lies that theiinfluence of Plato was independent Macedonia from existing at all. The lack of to blame for Nazism. heat and other economic hardships are exacerbating ethnic Yet the "anti-authoritarian" Popp¢r, like his mentor Aris­ tensions. If there is conflict in Macedonia, it is likely to totle, does not object to coercion if it is aimed against human degenerate into a general Balkan war; on the other hand, if a life. In an interview published in G�rmany in March 1992, multi-ethnic society can survive there, it would help contain Sir Karl blamed environmental ills ort "the population explo­ the turmoil that has engulfed the region. The time to recog- sion," which "we have to solve in' an ethical way. Only

EIR February 5, 1993 Economics 7 children that are really wanted must be born.. ..People that "I considered it essential to demonstrate that the political don't want the children must be given the means not to get transformation [from a closed to an open society] could result them. The means do exist now, I mean the abortion pill." He in economic improvement: Pdland was the place where this voiced "optimism" that the Catholic Church would suJiport could be accomplished ....Ilprepared the broad outlines of euthanasia in such "reasonable" instances as rape or AIDS a comprehensive economic prdgram. It had three ingredients: babies, or babies born in the Third World without a chance monetary stabilization, structllral changes, and debt reorga­ of survival. nization. I argued that the thr�e objectives could be accom­ Should abortions and euthanasia prove too slow, there's plished better in combination than separately. That was par­ always military force. Popper blamed a large part of the ticularly true for industrial reorganization and debt developing sector's crisis on the "political stupidity" of its reorganization since they represented opposite sides of the leaders. "We have liberated these states too early and in a national balance sheet. I propOsed a kind of macroeconomic too primitive way. These are no-law states yet. The same debt-for-equity swap .... would happen if you'd leave a kindergarten to itself." He "I joined forces with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard Uni­ argued that the "civilized world" has all the right to launch versity, who was advocating a similar program, and spon­ wars against the Third World for the sake of "peace." sored his work in Poland through the Stefan Batory Founda­ Sir Karl's pupil Soros claims to recognize that economic tion. He created a tremendous stir with his ideas and became depression breeds totalitarian regimes. Yet he has helped a very controversial figure, but he succeeded in focusing the unleash the very von Hayek-modeled "shock therapy" aus­ debate on the right issues. I also worked closely with Prof. terity regimes that are destroying all hope of recovery of the Stanislaw Gomulka, who be�ame the adviser to the new collapsed former communist economies. Soros is a financial finance minister, Leszek Baloerowicz, and was in the end manager, who deals in the esoteric realm of derivatives­ more influential than ProfesSOllSa chs." e.g., currency speculation-and his writings show the most According to Soros, this combination developed a "radi­ perverse contempt for physical-economic principles. cal approach." "Ba1cerowicz stuck to his guns and presented The obstinacy suggests that George Soros is not just out a radical program of monetary stabilization at the Internation­ for himself, but fronts for an Anglo-American geopolitical al Monetary Fund meeting in Washington. The IMF ap­ faction bent on strangling economic development. Take his proved, and the program wentiinto effect on Jan. I, 1990. It collaboration with the shady Mark Palmer. It began, ac­ was very tough on the popUlation, but people were willing cording to John Train's The New Money Masters, when to take a lot of pain in order to see real change." Palmer was U.S. ambassador to Hungary, and backed a Soros's complaint is that rtot enough pain was inflicted management-training center in an old castle outside Buda­ on the Poles through this "shock" approach, because of the pest known as the Central European University. Palmer failure to shut down less effidient factories and leave their had to resign as ambassador in a major conflict-of-interest work forces jobless. In UndenlVriting Democracy, he states: scandal, and evaded prosecution through the equivalent of "Take the case of Poland. The governmentacted very coura­ a plea bargain. Today he is executive officer of the Central geously; indeed, the stabilization program had some of the European Development Corp. (CEDC). Informed sources earmarks of a Polish cavalry charge. Inflation has been re­ report that through the CEDC, Palmer-also close to Kis­ duced but the outcome still hangs in the balance because singer Associates-is working to contain any potential de­ structural adjustment is slow illcomi ng. Production has fall­ velopment role for Germany, by seeding central and eastern en by 30%, but employment has fallen by only 3%. This Europe with Anglo-American financial institutions. Not sur­ means the entrenched management of state enterprises is prisingly, in a 1991 interview, Palmer sharply opposed Lyn­ using the respite it gained from wage claims to improve its don LaRouche's proposal for a Productive Triangle plan profit margins and keep the w�rkers employed. There is an which would join Paris, Berlin, and Vienna by high-speed unholy alliance between management and labor that will be rail links, and transform the region into an industrial engine hard to break." to drive the development of the Eurasian continent as a whole. Soros and the Shatalin Rlan After blaming the Polish !fiasco on a failure to apply Sachsmaniac intensive enough shocks until the patient was electrocuted, Soros had a big hand in creating the Polish model of Soros trained his sights on the Soviet Union. He got involved "shock therapy" which has so ruined the economy, that many in drafting a Russian version lof the Polish model, which Polish voters are turningback in desperation to the commu­ became known as the Shatalin Plan, starting in July 1990. nists. In his bOOk, Soros boasts of being a major funder Soros urged Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin, of babyfaced Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs, whom he whom he met through Yuri Afahasyev, a leader of the demo­ introduced into economic policy debates in Poland and the cratic movement and a member of the board of Soros's Soviet Union. Soros writes of Poland: Soviet American Foundation Cultural Initiative, to ally with

8 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 Mikhail Gorbachov for a radical restructuring of the Soviet Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. Gorbachov favored the Shatalin Union. Yeltsin balked at first, according to Soros. The bulk Plan, while Yeltsin favored Ryzhkov'$. According to Soros, of the plan that bore the name of Prof. Stanislav Shatalin had it was the bureaucracy that defeated the Shatalin Plan, be­ been authored by the East-West spy nest based in Laxenburg, cause it would have created "a new center of power which Austria known as the International Institute for Applied would gain public support by doing battle with the much­ Systems Analaysis (IIASA). hated old center. It was a brilliant conception not widely Soros drafted a memorandum for Yeltsin on July 3, understood either inside the Soviet Union or outside. Unfor­ 1990, that prescribed the following monetarist potion: tunately it was well enough understopd by the bureaucracy "The only way in which the intervention can be made which managed to defuse it. The Shatalin Plan was probably both effective and acceptable is by focusing on the creation the last chance to create a new center of power whose of a monetary system that would allow the transformation authority would extend over the entire territoryof the Soviet of the Soviet Union into a confederation of sovereign repub­ Union." lics and, in the case of the Baltic countries, independent The Shatalin Plan was little more than an adaptation of states. The transformation itself is an internalaffair in which the failed IMF-Sachs Polish model· to the former Soviet it would be inappropriate to interfere; but having a monetary Union, ostensibly to create a market economy. Among its system that would keep the economy integrated or, more provisions were: I) decontrolling prices and ending subsidies exactly, provide a way for reconstituting a disintegrating on basic commodities like bread; 2) cutting the budget deficit economy would make the difference between success and to zero over two years; 3) shutting dO'Wn inefficient industry failure. The Soviet leadership recognizes that it cannot estab­ and leaving the workers unemployed; and, 4) stabilizing the lish such a monetary system with assistance. What it needs ruble and making it convertible. is not just credit but the credibility that western involvement As a financier, who has made his fortune out of manipu­ would bring. If the G-7 [countries represented at the Houston lating the bubble in the West, Soros oozes scorn foran econo­ summit] indicated their willingness to help in establishing a my's need to build infrastructureand industry. In Underwrit­ monetary system for a reconstituted Soviet Union, their ing Democracy he writes ofthe Soviet Union: "We may view offer would be enthusiastically received and the seemingly the gigantic hydroelectric dams, the steel plants, the marble inexorable decline into chaos could be reversed." halls of the Moscow subway and the skyscrapers of Stalinist When Yeltsin responded favorably to several parts of architecture as so many pyramids built by a modem pharaoh. this memo, Soros sent it to the G-7 heads of state, who Hydroelectric plants produce energy, and steel plants tum would be gathering in Houston. Margaret Thatcher was out steel, but if the steel and energy Ilre used simply to pro­ among those who liked the plan. Soros returned to Russia, duce more dams and steel plants, the effect on the economy is where Yeltsin and Gorbachov were reaching a reconcilia­ not very differentfrom that of the constructionof pyramids. " tion. After meetings with the leadership of both camps, While much heavy industry and infrastructure built under Petrakov and Yavlinsky , who were en route to discuss the communism was stupidly planned, Soros's analogy to the Shatalin Plan in retreat, said they "would welcome a group pyramids of Egypt, which never had afunction in the physical of western economists to discuss the plan as soon as the two economy, is maliciously inexact. Not to mention the chutz­ leaders had signed off on it. . . . They left the composition pah of a currency speculator, who he.sts $1-2 billion in days, of the western group to me. We would set the date of the calling steel plants and dams a drag qn the economy! visit through Aksyonov. I was elated. What I had hoped for In a Jan. 4, 1993 commentary in the Washington Post had finally happened." Soros harped on the monetarist theme: "Help should take the Upon his return to New York, Soros put together his form of an internationallyfin anced social safety net, distrib­ group, which included: the ubiquitous Jeffrey Sachs, fresh uted directly to the unemployed and needy in the form of from his debacle in Poland; Romano Prodi from Italy, former hard currency--dollars or deutschemark bills. head of IRI (the Italian holding company of state-owned "Given the fact that the minimuI1l1 wage in Russia is $6 a enterprises); Guillermo de la Dehesa from Spain, who had month, the cost of such a scheme would be well within the directed the Spanish privatization program at the Ministry range of an IMF program: I believe $10 billion a year would of Finance; David Finch, retired officialof the International be sufficient for the entire Soviet Union." Monetary Fund; Stanley Fischer and Jacob Frenkel, heads of Soros then unveils the real purpose of his proposed re­ research of the World Bank and IMF respectively; Michael forms-neo-colonialist looting: "The social safety net would Bruno of the Central Bank of Israel; Gur Ofer of Jerusalem also provide a powerful incentive to!shut down loss-making University; Ed Hewett of the Brookings Institution; and enterprises .. ..Factories could be idled and the raw materi­ Martin Tardos from Hungary. als and energy that go into production could be sold for Several members of this group traveled with Soros to more than the output." Leaders of formercomm unist nations Russia, where two plans were being debated: One was the struggling for freedom should ask themselves if they can Shatalin Plan and the other was identified with Soviet Prime affordGeorge Soros' s alms.

EIR February 5, 1993 Economics 9 Interview: Ambassador Abdalla Ahmed Abdalla

Sudan's farmersach ieve grain surplus, send food relief abroad

Dr. Abdalla Ahmed Abdalla is ambassador to the United the agricultural sector in the last two years should be related Statesfrom the Republic of Sudan . He has served as professor to the overall economic polidy environment that has been on the agriculture fa culty, and also as dean of students, at introduced. the University of Khartoum. From 1974 to 1977, he was As a result of this new pdlicy environment, there have vice chancellor of the university, and since has served as been certain major policy actiOns taken, the central of which chairman of the university's council (regents.) He served as are: minister of agriculture, fo od and natural resources in Sudan 1) The privatization of several of the Agricultural Public from 1977 to 1980. From 1980 to 1985, he was the first Corporations (APCs) was implemented, and other actions governor of the Northern region in Sudan. He is a graduate taken to foster the private sectQr. of the University of Khartoum, and earned a master's and 2) Certain changes were made in the laws and regulations doctoral degrees in plant physiology fr om the University of affecting economic activities lin the areas of customs and Californiaat Davis . He completed his studies there in 1963. taxation, with a bias toward prb

10 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 farmers themselves bought a governmentbank , and now they run the Farmers Bank. These are three specialized, private banks, directed toward the private sector, fostered and sup­ ported by the sector, and serving mainly to support the tradi­ tional agriculture sector. There are many details which I have not given you, which have been put in place to enable the agriculture sector, wheth­ er it is still in the public corporation state, or in transition, or private, to make use of and respond to the new policy environment of macroeconomic measures that have been taken.

EIR: What has been the impact of these policy changes? Abdalla: The agriculture sector responded markedly to the policies during the past two years. 1) The agriculture sector recorded a growth rate of 30% during 1991-92. This is the highest over the last decade. There was nothing like a 30% growth rate . And this 30% growth rate in the agriculture sector contributed to the overall growth rate of the economy of 11.8%. These figures have also been agreed to by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. 2) The total grain production increased from 2.7 million tons in 1989-90, to 4.8 million tons in 1991-92. This im­ mediately resulted in self-sufficiency, and a little surplus

"'"' at Po" Sadao. l'Sudan ships livestock to 'SaudiArabia, Egypt, ibya, and Jordan. The agriculture sector overall achieved a 30% lgrowth rate last year.

EIR February 5, 1993 Economics 11 FIGURE 2 FIGURE 3 Sudan's diverse agro-ecology: land use zones Sudan's average annu�1 rainfall

.,,//1/< Seasonal swamp grazing .. Permanent swamps

Note: The letters on the maps refer to the ecological zones described in Table 1. Note: The letters on the maps refer to t�e ecological zones described in Table 1.

TABLE 1 Sudan's agricultural resource areas in differing ecological zones (millions of hectares; estimated by the Sudanese Agriculture Ministry)

Total area available for Total area Pasture area Cultivated a�ea agriculture Forested

Ecological zone A. Desert 71.9 Semidesert 48.6 9.7 B. Savanna (sandy, low rainfall: 300-400 millimeters) 32.4 28.6 3.8 C. Savanna (higher rainfall: 400-800 mm) 35.9 31.9 4 32 Subtotal-Northern Sudan: 188.8 70.2 7.8 32 D. Savanna (high rainfall: 800-1 ,300 mm) 34 22.7 11.4 E. Flood area 24.2 Mountainous .6 Forested 24.2 Subtotal-Southern Sudan: 58.8 22.7 N.A. 11.4 24.2 Total Sudan: 247.6 92.8 7.8 43.4 24.2

12 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 FIGURE 4 FIGURE S Sudan: annual output of all grains by farm Sudan: annual output of food crops rises, sector, 1983-92 cash crops falls, in irrigated sector,: 1983-92 (sorghum, wheat, miliet, com)

6,000 -,------. m Groundnuts FI Rainfed traditional 5,000 [I Cotton 11 Rainfed mechanized • To tal grains Irri ated 4,000 • g �<> .'" Q) 3,000 �'" gj � £; 2,000

1,000

o o 1983-88 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1983-88 1989-90 11990-91 1991-92 average projected average

(Figure 4) . This year, which is 1992-93, the harvest is still going on. The estimate of the harvest, by the U.N. Food and Agricul­ TABLE 2 ture Organization [FAO] assessment team, which now comes Estimated numbers of livestock in Sudan, annually to make an assessment of grain production in the 1985-92 Sudan, is between 5 and 5.5 million tons, giving us a surplus (thousands of head)

of 1.5 million tons of sorghum. President El Bashir an­ Year Cattle Goats Sheep Camels nounced recently that the harvest may reach 7 million tons. The FAO was in Sudan in November and December 1985-86 19,632 13,799 18,690 2,712 1992, and at that time, the figure quoted by the minister of 1986-87 19,739 13,942 18,801 2,705 agriculture as an assessment, was 5.5 million tons. 1987-88 19,858 14,196 19,207 2,722 This is the record highest harvest in Sudan. There has 1988-89 20,167 14,482 19,668 2,732 never been 1.5 million tons of surplus, never in the history 1989-90 20,593 14,854 20,168 2,742 of Sudan. This occurred from the combined output of the 1990-91 21,028 15,278 20,701 2,752 mechanized, the traditional [non-mechanized] , and the irri­ 1991-92 21,504 15,592 21,288 2,775 gated sectors. Wheat production increased from an average of 200,000 tons in the late 1980s, to 895,000 tons in 1991-92. It used to oscillate between 150,000 and 200,000 tons in the late 1980s. has been going on for a long time; what is new is that credit As for 1992-93, of course, the crop is still in the field. facilities have been made for the farmers and the tenants to These increases resulted from not only an increase in purchase livestock. The fodder is now an integral part of the the cropped area, but an increase in yield, i.e., increased rotation in the Gezira scheme, and other schemes (Table 2). productivity. Some people think that increases have been 4) There has been an increase in the area for export obtained only through horizontal expansion of area. Not so. crops-sesame, ground nuts, safflower-which was a reac­ It is both: horizontal expansion and vertical expansion-that tion by the farmers to the liberalization policies and prices. is, productivity per unit area, resulting from the new policies Exports in the last two years have gone mainly to Europe, introduced. and now to the Far East-Malaysia, Indonesia, China. We The higher yields reflect the removal of certain con­ used to have some exports of cotton to India; but they are straints, the application of some technology in terms of re­ terminating, because India is now more or less self-sufficient search, better farming methods, better management, better in cotton. Livestock goes to the Middle East, mainly to Saudi resources for fertilizer, and timely application of inputs. Arabia, and also to Egypt, Libya, Jordan. 3) Integration of livestock in the irrigated subsector. This Sesame goes mainly to Europe, 'but there are now new

EIR February 5, 1993 Economics 13 research workers to other countries; partly because of certain structural deficits in the system itself; and partly because of lack of strong linkage bet een agriculture research and extension, because each is in a separate structural area. Agriculture Research Cooperation is directly under the Minister of Agriculture, and has very little to do, if anything, with extension. Extension is in the Ministry of Agriculture, but very isolated from agriculture research and education. Agriculture education is totai/y under higher education, and has very little to do with agr�culture research, which is tar­ getted toward solving the problems of agriculture in the Su­ dan . It is rather academic research and so on, and very little cooperation and coordination exist. However, these problems are now being addressed, with the objectives of bringing together as much as possible agri­ culture education, agriculturd research, and agriculture ex­ tension. New faculties of agriculture have been created in the new universities. There is a new faculty of a&ricuI lture in the new University of Wadi AI-Nil in the north (that's the Nile Valley Universi­ ty ,) primarily addressing irl-igated horticulture, because that's an area of horticulture, . nown for its high-value crops. They will focus on arid agri�ulture, utilizing underground water. Already we get water om the Nile. Harvesting of gum arabic, used in manufacture of adhesives, There is another new faculty in Kordofan, and that faculty confections, and pharmaceuticals . of agriculture is going to addre�s more the problems of natural resources-land degradation, soillwater relationships, envi­ markets in Southeast Asia. This year's harvest is about three ronmental degradation of forlests, better land use manage­ times as much as last year. The governmentestima te is about ment, and so on. It will also address livestock, because Kor­ 350,000 tons of sesame . The farmers and the merchants esti­ dofan is the livestock regioljl. It will address productive mate is 500,000 tons. In contrast, the last year's harvest­ farming systems that will integrate soil and livestock crops the one before the most recent-was 100,000 tons. altogether, also caring for the dnvironment. It will emphasize Gum arabic is very good this year. Last year it was very the new concept-which is ndt new, but emerging: the con­ bad, because the winter was very severe. This year there is cept of sustainable agriculture. a good harvest. There is another agricultu�e faculty in Darfur. And in the south, there is a college of agriculture at the Upper Nile EIR: Are there new technology and education programs? University in Malakal. There is also a college of agriculture Abdalla: There are many prerequisites and determinants for at the University of Gezira, hich is now 15 years old. It sustained agriculture growth. One of them is technology, and addresses the problems of the irrigated sector of the Gezira by that I mean research, education, and extension. and rainfed agriculture. In our vision for agriculture in the future-to increase our exports, to guarantee our food security, and to make EIR: How many students are enrolled now? a base for agriculture industry-promotional policies and Abdalla: There has been a re olution in higher education in technology become very important, along with the private Sudan. The number of studen�s accepted has jumped at least sector. It is very important that we emphasize agriculture five times in the last two years. This year there were 37,000 education, research, and extension. This is now being done new enrollments. Two facultids are stressed at the colleges in through, mainly, supporting the agriculture research system the newly emerging universitibs: education and agriculture. that is already there. Some of the universities have redicine, engineering, and so We are strengthening the capabilities of the different ex­ on. But there was primary concern for creating these two perimental stations in the different regions of the Sudan, faculties in each of the new emerging universities. The facul­ because the capabilities of agriculture research in the Sudan ty of education is always ther1, in all of them. And a faculty have been declining. They have declined particularly in terms of agriculture is always there, 'ifl all of them. Apart from that, of operational budget for research, equipment, supplies, part­ they differ. ly some brain drain-losing some of our good agriculture To be continued.

14 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 How Ibero-Americacan become an economic superpower by Dennis Small

The fo llowing is adaptedfr om a speech delivered by EIR continent with an immediate and totalimoratorium on foreign Ibero-American Editor Dennis Small in May 1992, at the debt payment and with a total politicaljbreak with the Interna­ fo unding conference of the Ibero-American SolidarityMove­ tional Monetary Fund. Obviously, we: must form a common ment in Tlaxcala, Mexico. market and customs union in lbero-Atmerica, to take advan­ tage of the natural complementarity of the continent's econo­ If we examine the process of economic disintegration that mies; obviously, we must channel �l resources saved and Ibero-America is suffering today, the task of putting an end generated into production and not intq speculation; and obvi­ to the looting of the continent and transforming it into an ously, we must establish Hamiltoniartmechanisms to gener­ economic superpower could appear to be not only a titanic ate credit. But all of these things, while necessary, are. not undertaking, but a sheer impossibility. Five years ago, in our sufficient to do the job. . . Ibero-American Integration book, we spoke of the necessity The most fundamental economicI question is: How can of creating 100million new productive jobs by the year 2000, we reinvest the economic surplus th�s generated, and what that is, within 15 years, as the central theme of reconstruc­ method must we use to arrive at such investment decisions? tion. We showed there that this was feasible: If the policies Here is where many otherwise well-intentioned nationalists outlined by Lyndon LaRouche in his 1982 work Operation across the continent fail miserably, !lot to mention the neo­ Juarez were adopted, we could achieve a real economic Keynesians and other misguided economists. Only the eco- growth rate of 10% a year, and we could thereby reach the level of development of Spain within 15 years; and in 30 years Ibero-America could attain the average development FIGURE 1 levels of the OECD countries (France, Germany, etc.). Ibero-America: Real unemployment and But today, fiveyears later, the task is far greater. Produc­ needed job creation, 1980-2005 tive employment in Ibero-America stagnated for the entire (millions of people) decade of the 1980s at a level of about 90 million productive jobs, against which a real unemployment level of 75 million Real unemployment persons has been generated, the equivalent of a 45% unem­ • ployment rate (Figure 1). To provide productive employ­ ment to all of these unemployed, and also to all the new entrants to the labor market over the next 15 years, that is, by the year 2005, we would have to create not 100million new productive jobs, but 130 million. In other words, the problem has become 30% greater in five short years. And not only this. Today we are taking off from a very deteriorated productive base compared to that of 1985; chol­ era has ravaged Ibero-America; the infrastructure of the con­ tinent has collapsed. That is, Ibero-America has been "Afri­ canized." Can we succeed? Yes, we can; and the curious thing is that we can do it in the same 15-year time frame that would have been required to resolve the problem fiveyears ago. How, then, can we make Ibero-America an economic superpower? Obviously, we must stop the looting of the 1980 1985 1990 2005

EIR February 5, 1993 Economics 15 cess, which is also a product of technological advance. All of this requires that the reinvestment of the economic surplus be guided by these criteria: It must be done in such a way as to increase as rapidl� as possible the labor force's productive capacity to assimilate and reproduce advances in science and technology. ThiS iS the onlyway to decide where to invest. Economic decisions! cannot be made from the standpoint of "well, here are some hungry people, and we must feed them," or "here w need some houses built and we must repair the streets." The conomy cannot be approached, just as politics cannot be apprbached, in "democratic" terms, dividing up what little there is "equitably." Rather, we must be totally scientific, and see what produces the most rapid possible increases in the productive power of labor. This means that we must find tho�e areas or regions of greatest economic density, in terms otithe three indicated parameters: 1) skilled manpower; 2) intensity of capital and technology use; 3) intensity of energy use.

The 'Productive Axis' The most economically denseI "Productive Axis" of Ibe­ ro-America is made up ofthe area of southernBr azil, passing I through Uruguay to northern Argentina (Figure 2). In Argen- tina, this includes the provinees of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Cordoba, and Entre Rios, and in Brazil, Rio Grande do Sui, Santa Catarina, Parana, Sao �aulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Espi­ ritu Santo. This region possesses the greatest economic den­ Children living on the streets of Brazil. Raising the productive power of labor is the absolute prerequisite fo r economic sity, the greatest concentrati In of labor and capital potential development of the continent. able to facilitate the most rapid growth rates possible of the entire continent's productive abor power. It would therefore be a mistake to sidetrack available investment into poorer nomic theory of Lyndon LaRouche has a scientificresponse regions; on the contrary, invdstment should be channeled as ' to this question. a priority into precisely that region which, because of its density , can produce extreme1.y high growth rates compared Population density to the rest of the continent. T�is economic surpluscould then In many writings, LaRouche has demonstrated that the be used as the motor to launth large infrastructure projects only scientificmeas urement of an advancing physical econo­ to integrate the continent phy�ically, as shown on the map. my is the rate of growth of the potential population density Let's look at some details hfthe region's economic densi­ of the society taken as a whole. This increase, in tum, re­ ty to better understand its potential. quires three conditions. First, the average per capita con­ Figure 3 takes four basic 9arameters of the physical econ­ sumption level, required for the development of the labor omy and compares the "Protluctive Axis" with the entire force, must increase. Second, the rate of investment in capital Ibero-American continent for these categories. For example, goods, machine tools, etc., for the economy, must increase, in terms of total surface area, measured in square kilometers, and it must do so at a faster rate than the growth of consumer the Productive Axis only inc�udes 11.9% of the continent's goods production. In effect, every worker, and every mem­ total territory. But in terms0 population, it contains 26.4% ber of society, in his productive activity, will put into action ofthe total. That is, the region possesses a greater. population an ever greater quantity of capital, per capita. This increases density than the rest of the co�tinent. I the productive power of labor. Historically, these advances As for manufacturing, we see that 40.4% of the continen­ occur with the progress of science and technology, and their tal total is found in this region. In terms of manufacturing application to the economy. Third, energy density must be production, the Productive Ar,is concentrates 44.3% of the increased both per capita and per hectare, both in its industrial continent's total. In the prdduction of electrical energy, uses and for consumption directly. Not only must energy 39.4% of the continental total is found in this region. density be increased in this way, but the energy flux-density What does this translate linto in terms of densities? In must also increase, that is, the "heat" of the economic pro- Figure 4, we compare the densities of the Productive Axis

16 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 FIGURE 2 The Ibero-American 'Productive Axis'

in the categories mentioned with those of the rest of Ibero­ densest countries in the world: Spain has 77 inhabitants per America, and Spain. We chose Spain, because it's a Europe­ square kilometer compared to France �102), Germany (221), an country with an intermediate level of development to Japan (325) and South Korea (428)1 Europe's Productive which Ibero-America could aspire within a period of 15 Triangle possesses a population den�ity of 288 inhabitants years;not to mention Lyndon LaRouche's proposed "Produc­ per square kilometer. I tive Triangle"-Europe's industrial heartland connecting Employment in manufacturing prlbvides an approximate Paris, Berlin, and Vienna-as the planet's most economical­ measure of the existence of skilled 14bor, LaRouche's first ly dense region. parameter. In this category , the Produ

EIR February 5, 1993 Economics 17 FIGURE 3 The 'Productive Axis' as a percent of Ibero-America, 1990 Area Population

Manufacturing employment Manufacturing output Electricity

pared to the Productive Axis which stands at 39-that is, between five and six times more dense than the rest of the FIGURE 4 continent in terms of manufacturing production. But once The relative densities .,f. the 'Productive again, the Axis stands far below Spain, which produces Axis,' 1990 $135,000 worth of manufactures per square kilometer. 300 .------r------, The last category is electrical energy: the Productive Axis Rest of Ibero-Ameri consumes 96 megawatt-hours per square kilometer, almost II 250 9a1 five times more than the rest of Thero-America, with a level fII Productive Axis of 20. Spain consumes 255 megawatt-hours per square kilo­ Spain 200 II meter. These broad parameters of the physical economy give us an idea of why we have to center any continental development 150 project in the Productive Axis: Only there can we find a sufficient concentration or density of the limiting conditions 100 of economic growth. We must use that productive capability to generate the necessary growth rates to achieve a "densifi­ 50 cation" of the restof Ibero-America, to bring the entire conti­ nent to the level of Spain within 15 years. What makes this possible are not so much the existing o Population Manufactu�ng Manufacturing Electricity densities found within the Productive Axis which in them­ (per km"} employmelnt outout (MWhlkm") selves are not so impressive; but rather the region's potential (per 10/k"!l") (thousand $/km"} to generate and absorb technological advances-a potential which is due more than anything to the existence of a signifi­ i cant number of scientists and technicians, particularly in Ar­ and Wall Street want to desttoy no matter what. It is these gentina and Brazil. This is the continent's most important capabilities, particularly Arg�ntina and Brazil's nuclear and economic resource: that technological and scientificcapabili­ aerospace programs, which tnake it possible to transform ty which is exactly what the International Monetary Fund Ibero-America into an econOIpic superpower.

18 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 two of the powerful Cordier interest's Bordeaux wines which, in the last decade, have more than tripled in price. In the 1980s, under the Reagan "poom," the wines from a majority of years were glorified, ea4h new one being hyped as the latest "vintage of the century," P.T. Barnum-style. Prices for top wines soared, pulling! the market as a whole Wine speculators along. The profile of the wine indu$try also changed. In heading fo r a bust Bordeau, Burgundy, and other trliPitional wine regions, where producers often represented a third- or fifth-generation ownership of the property, even legendary wines houses are by Philip Ulanowsky now owned by Japanese or multinational interests. "Diversi­ fication" led more than a few corporations into similar posi­ A well-informed source in the international wine trade has tions in the wine market, while European wine interests told this news service that wine prices will fall drastically "in formed joint ve ntures for prime vineyards in the United about a year." In his view, some prices coulddrop to a tenth States. of their present level. A sober view of the 1980s succe�es must include recog­ Since the early 1980s, especially since the 1982 "super nition that significant advances in Wine-making technology vintage," wine has joined other commodities as a target and practices permit better wines to be made in lesser years for investment speculators, driving prices through the roof, than was generally possible a decade prior. The more ordi­ especially prices for the finest and rarest wines. In recent nary wines have benefited the mokt, thus narrowing the years, however, a drop in American wine consumption, and quality gap between, for instance, \Ill any "jug" wines and increases in production and availability, have created a glut. their cousins costing twice or thrice �s much. As this change The same winds that blew over the card-houses of real impresses itself on the . palate of discerning wine drinkers, estate and leveraged buy-outs are now blowing around the they are likely to toast the prosperity around the increasingly relatively smaller speculative markets. However, evidence distant comer with less costly fare . indicates engineering by some of the power-brokers of the market. Fine wines have always been purchased young by con­ noisseurs and dealers, since many can improve with age, in some cases overdecade s, making them increasingly rare and LAROUCHE expensive items. In the 1980s, however, futures in wine took off in earnest, with yuppies buying cellarsfull of wine YOU MAY LOVE HIM and bigger investors taking up to six- and even seven-figure YOU MAY HATE HIM plunges into the market, in hopes of selling the wine at a significant profit a few years later. Why predict a decline? "It's already happening. We see that in Port [wine] and others," said the source. "The [top] chateaus are in good shape; it's the wines around them" BUT The that will suffer the most, he said, referring to second-level, ...... ,:=-=-==------1 Power of �����������--� Reason: 1988 primarily French wines, now priced typically in the range YOU'D SEDER an atlluhklWdlJll)' by Lyndon H. of $18-35. Many of these wines will become available for a LaRouche Jr dime on the dollar (wholesale), this source predicts. KNOW WHAT HE HAS TO SAY Collapse is overdue "It should have happened three years ago. Historically, it happens about 18 months behind the real estate market. Look at what happened in the '70s," said the source. During The Power of that decade of financial assaults, only a couple of major vintages (years when the wines of a given country or region Reason: 1988 are exceptionally good, due to unusually good growing sea­ An Autobiography by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. sons) were recognized. According to this source, the price Published by Executive Intelligenc Review drop of the '72 vintage (followed by two weak years) was Order fromlien Franklin l!ociks8l1ers. ·f07 �Uih, King St.. LeeSburg. VA -22075. $10 plus shipping ($3.50first book. $.50each d�ional). Bulk rates available. led by wines such as Chateaus Talbot and Gruaud LaRose,

EIR February 5, 1993 Economics 19 The trade war dimension It is usually safe to presume that when a warning of this kind surfaces on matters involving international trade, CurrencyRates powerful forces have already determined an intended outcome. The dollar in deutschemarks Given the rumblings against the United States in New York late afternoonfixing European policy circles, the faltering negotiations around 1.70 the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and I the European Community's Maastricht Treaty, and similar , -- 1.60 --' -,-- trade impasses, which recently included U.S. threats of � � � trade war against French wine , it were hardly a guess that 1.50 this development is no exception. In fact, the source reports, significant lots (hundreds of cases) of "second­ 1.40 tier" wines-some unavailable for years-are suddenly appearing, in the already depressed London as well as 1.30 New York and other wholesale markets, at prices that Il109 1l/l6 12123 12/30: V6 Vl3 1120 1127 haven't been seen for over a decade. The dollar in yen At the same time, the grand mogul of the U.S. market, New York late afternoonfixing

the Bronfman-owned Seagrams' Chateau and Estates import­ I ers, is dumping large quantities of wine on the Belgian and 140 German markets. ! If wine prices do drop significantly, this can only hurt 130 , California growers, who are already ripping out tens of thousands of acres of vines in prime wine country, due to 120 the unchecked spread of a voracious new type of the dreaded 110 root louse phylloxera. Given the $lO,OOO-per-acre cost of replanting on resistant root stocks-and new vines don't 100 even produce fruit for three years-the cost is already esti­ Il109 1l/l6 12123 12/30 V6 VI3 1120 1127 mated in the billions for the known infestation. If it should ! spread further, the figure could soar. There is no doubt, given The British pound in d�llars the credit crunch at banks and the financial indebtedness of New York late afternoonfixing I many growers, that hundreds of wineries will go out of I 1.70 business. 1 1.60 A new Prohibition? - Other factors may also come into play over the coming I.SO , """""" ir..",-. ....,... years. The neo-Prohibitionist movement, which already has I a significant voice in federal alcohol regulatory and enforce­ 1.40 ment agencies, as well as among millions of fundamentalist Christians, may well grow. The last round of Prohibition 1.30 I was no accident, but rather a well-orchestrated boost for the 1lI09 ll/16 12123 12/301 V6 Vl3 1120 1127 Bronfman-Lansky organized crime rings. The hands and feet' The dollar in Swiss fra�cs of the Bronfman interests should again be closely watched New York late afternoonfixing . as matters progress. In the 1990s, our source predicts that only about two 1.60 more major vintages will be declared (after 1990): one, mid­ decade; the other, 1999. Meanwhile, many of those who I.SO , made major investments recently in wine futures will "take """-I"' .." 1 I- a bath." Wineries and vineyards will be hit hard by collapsed 1.40 f

revenues. Major dealers and other players with multimillion­ I 1.30 dollar funds assembled between now and then to purchase large volumes of wine at the lower prices, will clean up. The 1.20 prices of the wines will come back, he said; "they always do," Il109 ll/16 ,12123 12/30! V6 V13 1120 1127 but with a hiatus of about fiveyears before prices recover.

20 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 Banking by John Hoefle

Rob from the poor to give to the rich and directors of Ithe Farm Credit Sys­ The primary roleof the so-called government-sponsored tem" repeatedly! violated the law by failing to infoI1Jl1 borrowers of how enterprises is to put your money in the bankers' pockets . lower interest rates and better loan re­ payment scheduies could be obtained, thereby illegall increasing the debt burden bornebyJ xfar mers, and increas­ ing the likelihodd that the debt could

o you think the federal deficit general welfare of the population. But not be repaid. i comesD from overspending on the gen­ that's not what is going on. These illeg activities, the com­ eral welfare? That's what you're told By running loans through these mittee found, w¢re� part of a deliberate to think. But think again. GSEs, the government is converting governmentpoli cy, as outlined in the While the Constitution charges the ordinary loans, for which the bankers Farm Credit Sys em's "Project 1995," government to care for the general are at risk, into government-backed under which th�t independent family welfare, instead, the government has securities. Moreover, since these farmer is to be destroyed, his money created myriad tools for looting the securities are as good as cash, they stolen by the bjankers, and his land population, for the welfare of select can be traded freely in the securities appropriated byithe grain cartels. internationalfina ncial interests. markets, providing hundreds of bil­ "I resigned Ifrom Farm Credit in Among the forms of this looting is lions of dollars to inflate the specula­ February 1988, lover my concern and the creation of federally backed debt tive bubble. belief Farm Credit was defrauding the (farm borrowing, family home loans, Another facet of this robbery is government, w s committing restruc­ and other seemingly useful debt) ex­ found in the farm sector, where the turing fraud, anp� was violating ethics pressly for the purpose of lining the Farm Credit System (FCS) and the to debtors," Keith McGruder, a for­ pockets of holders of the federal loan Farmers Home Administration mer Loan Offi�er Special Accounts guarantees-giant bankrupt banks. Bad (FmHA) operate. with the Farm Gredit Bank of Omaha

loans are even deliberately set up, so that The methods by which the govern­ and the Farm Credit Bank of Louis­ taxpayers' money ends up going to the ment is separating farmers from their ville, told the cQmmittee. banks holding the loan guarantees. land and livelihood, for the benefitof The FCS i� defrauding farmer­ That process is clearly seen in the big banks, were detailed in hear­ borrowers by three main methods, government -sponsored enterprises ings in North and South Dakota in De­ McGruder tesdfied. First, the FCS (GSEs), such as the Federal National cember 1992. raised interest tates on fully secured Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) The hearings, called on behalf of current loans, vthile hiding, in viola­ and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage the Schiller Institute, were run by re­ tion of the law, I options by which the Company (Freddie Mac), which buy tired Washington State Supreme borrower couldJ obtain lower interest mortgages from mortgage lenders, Court Justice William Goodloe, Okla­ rates or longer payout schedules. Sec­ bundle them together, and issue them homa executive director of the Na­ ond, the FC� often fraudulently as government-backedsecurit ies. tional Association for the Advance­ forced borrowets to restructure their In theory, these agencies exist to ment of Colored People Wade Watts, loans, to obtain additional security. help families buy homes, by provid­ and Schiller Institute Food for Peace Third, the FCS often threw farmers ing government guarantees for loans. representative Phil Valenti. into foreclosure and took their farms. By buying mortgages from savings The investigative committee The conseq"\lenceof this is to loot and loans and other mortgagelenders , found evidence of widespread fraud the farmer of a$ much of his assets as such agencies as Fannie Mae and on the part of bankers , officers of gov­ possible, then put him out of business. Freddie Mac free up the lenders' funds ernment-sponsored enterprises, and The inhum ' ity of forcing farmers for further mortgage loans, allowing government officials at the federal, offtheir land, �ile much of the world more people to buy houses. state, and local levels. The committee is dying for lac of food, is shocking, Were that the whole story, we found evidence of a clear "intent and but it is hardly I surprising, given the would have no objection. By helping pattern by creditors to defraud" the government' s r�peated moves to pro­ families buy homes, the government FmHA and "violate the law." The tect the predatoty financialsy stem, no would indeed be contributing to the committee also found that "officers matter the cost In human lives.

ElR February 5, 1993 Economics 21 Business Briefs

Space banner headlines on Jan. 22. in military i industrial , and medical fields. News ofthe biggest one-month jump in the Expert have praised this invention as the Joint experiment planned, number of people out of work and claiming most advap� ced in the world. The project, benefitssince the summer of 1991 came along­ defense pact signed which may,have a profound influence onlaser side furtherjob losses announced by Barclays research rujtd theory, has passed evaluation and British Gas, and fe ars of further cutbacks fromChi na's State Committee of the National The Gennan and Japanese space agencies are at Ford. Officials believe that the seasonally Fund of N�tural Science. planning a joint materials processing mission adjusted total is increasing at around 40 ,000 a which will use a Japanese launch vehicle pro­ month, faster than at a similar stage of the duced by Nissan Motors, and a Gennanexper­ 1980-8 1 slump. Unemployment has now risen iment carrier, Aviation Week reported in mid­ for 32 consecutive months. Energy January . The material to be processed is said The report was accompanied by figures i to be a catalyst which is useful in refining oil. showing that the manufacturing sector suf­ Japan esigns nuclear Afterfive days in space, the experimentcarrier fered an across-the-board drop in output in No­ � will land in the Australian desert. vember. The Guardian reportedgrowing anxi­ power !plants for the Moon Until recently, these two nations cooperat­ ety among dealers and analysts in London I ed in space only indirectly, through separate about"the lack of evidence ofeconomic recov­ Japan, whi h now has the most ambitious nu­ European and Japanese participation in the ery," and the pound tumbled on the prospect clear powet� development plan in the world, is U.S. Space Station Freedom project. Both are that the governmentwould beforced to cut the currently g plans,toplace nuclearpower anxious to expand their international relations cost of borrowing to levels not seen since the plants on Moon, Reuters reported Jan . 23 . without the United States as a mediator, and late- 1970s. The so-called "wise men" of the The Sc� ence and Technology Agency, a bilateral agreements have been proliferating. Treasury and the Confederation of British In­ governme ministry, is planning to launch a Meanwhile, outgoing U.S. Defense Sec­ dustry demanded an urgent base-rate cut in or­ five-year p oj ect this spring to develop a con­ retary Richard Cheney announced on Jan. 20 der to stimulate a "dangerously depressed verterthat change energy generated by nu­ that an agreement between the United States economy." clear powe plants on the Moon into electricity and France had been signed for cooperationin and then tninsmit it to Earth. The agency un­ developing the military uses of outer space, veiled theE next-generation energy project, Reuters reported. The agreement marks a ma­ touting it asI the answer to futureenergy needs jor change in U.S.-French relations. Science and a way reduce dependency on nuclear While the agreement is top secret, a joint power gen ration on Earth. statement said that the United States and Japan, �hich relies on imports for about Laser beams produced by France "intend to explorecooperation in mili­ 84% of its i energy resources, is steadily in­ tary uses of outer space ...[and] share the new method, Chinese say creasing itsl use of nuclear power, which now commitment not to contribute to the prolifera­ accounts about 30% of its electricity out­ tion of missile and space technologies that A new method for producing laser beams has put. It is go' g ahead with an experimental fast could jeopardize international security. . . . breeder reatil tor (FBR) program, even though been developed by Prof. Gao Jingyue at Jilin [They] believe . . . they shouldexarninecoop­ University in northeast China, according to France and lBritain have pulled back. eration in the military uses of space in the fol­ ! press reports on Jan. 22. In contrast to the uni­ lowing candidate areas: communications, versally known "popUlation inversion" meth­ I navigation, environmental monitoring, space od, laser emission fromsodium without popu­ technology and experiments, and officer, sci­ lation inversion has been observed in his lab . Health ! entist, engineer, and other personnel ex­ Population inversion means that electrons changes." are simultaneously excited to a higher energy AIDS- ke disease state . In this instance, it appears that coherent $ rava g Sudan light emission can occur without firstincreas­ gif ing the energy state-without a populationin­ � Labor version. In Italian physicist Giuliano Prepara­ United N ons and relief sources reported on ta' s model of superradiance (quantum field Jan. 22 tha 60,000 have died in Sudan due to British unemployment coherence) , coherent radiation can also be ac­ an AIDS-I" e disease that has wiped out whole cessed at low-energy states. In fact, he pro­ villages . e disease is Kala-azar, or visceral dispels recovery myth poses that the superradiant ground state is a leishmania is, which is spread by parasite-in­ lower energy state than is nonnally found. fected sand�ies. The symptoms are similar to Unemployment in Britain rose by more than The new method will break the limits of AIDS in th the immune system breaks down 60,000 in December,bringing the officialtotal population inversion, and offer a wider choice and the vic 'm dies of other infections. almost to 3 million, British media reported in of lased light characteristics and applications The affi� cted Sudanese, located in the Par- i

22 Economics EIR February 5, 1993 Brilifly

• JAPAN will host a conference April 23-24 to discuss Asian nations' worries about trade war because of the North American Free Trade ayang area, are unable to escape because they prices soar and unemployment grows." Rus­ Agreement and the Maastricht Trea­ are hemmedin by a battle front betweenrebel sian inflation,estimated at more than 2,000% ty, a Foreign Ministry source said on and govemment forces, and the world's largest in 1992, has reduced many families to poverty, Jan. 18. Delegates from 15 Pacific swamp. Because raiders often sell the people with the average monthly salary of about countries are expected to attend. of the area into slavery, the villagers often 13,000 rubles ($26) barely enough to cover sleep in the forest, where theyare infected by essential food costs. • CHINA hils leased the Russian the sandflies. Vaganov said Russia's population might port ofSarubino, near Vladivostok, the Victims of the Kala-azardisease can only befalling even faster than officialfigures sug­ pro-Beijing Hong Kong paper Wen besaved by a complex treatmentinvolving at gested,because many babies who died at birth WeiBao reported. China wants to build least 30 costly injections. were excluded from statistics. Vaganov said berths for 3 million tons of shipping. that beginning this year, Russia would adopt The port will give China access to the statistical standards approved by the World Sea of Japan and be used for shipping Health Organization, and predicted that this goods to Japan and North America. could raise the number of registered infant The governorof the Chinese province AIDS deaths by at least 20%. of Jilin, Guao Yan, said that the two countries are ready to begin construc­ Up to one-sixth of tion of a railroad fromthe city of Hun­ chun in Jilin to Sarubino. Zimbabweans infected Germany • SLOVENIA AND CROATIA One-sixth of the population of Zimbabwe were granted membership in the In­ which has been tested, has the HIV virus that Kohl austerity will ternational Monetary Fund on Jan. causes the disease AIDS, BBC reported on drop living standards 20. They must pay their share of the Jan. 18. This has been determined by the Zim­ former Yugoslavia foreign debt and babwe Commercial Farmers Union, which accept IMF conditionalities in ex­ carriedout a national survey. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government in change for loans. Even if the Serbian The union warns that the AIDS epidemic Bonn approved on Jan. 18 a proposalto reduce war were halt¢d, they will not be able · could have "disastrous consequences for the thebudget deficit,including cuts in entitlement to support the half million refugees, Zimbabwe economy. " The areas of transport, and subsidy programs in the rangeof 18 billion nor start a reconstruction program. finance, and marketing could suffer from"se­ deutschemarks ($11.2 billion), for fiscalyear riouslabor shortages over the next decade" as 1993, which is expectedto bepresented to the • THE IN11ER-ACTION Council a resultof the out-of-control epidemic. parliamentfor a vote before the end ofJanuary . of Helmut Schmidt is meeting in The London Times billed the"sol idarity pact" Cape Town, South Africa, and is as the most drasticcut in German living stan­ forming "a strategy to pull the [Afri­ dards in 50 years. can] continent out of its economic DM 9 billion in "savings" involves across­ plight," the Jan. 22 London Times Demographics the-board cuts in unemployment compensa­ reported. One agenda item is a call tion, sick pay, child support, and other essen­ for the cancel[ation of Africa's debt. Deaths in Russia tial social welfare programs. Another DM 9 billion is to be cut from • THE HEALTH MINISTRY in exceeded births in 1992 state support to the coalmining and farm sec­ Japan plans to investigate the effects tors, ship-building, the textile and steel-pro­ of computer games on health. Hospi­ For the first time sinceWorld War II, deaths ducing industries, and the aerospace sector. tals there reprtat least a dozen cases exceeded births in Russia in 1992, Russian A substantial increase of the gasoline tax in which children have had epileptic Deputy Health Minister NikolaiVaganov said and a new taxfor the use of roads and highways fits while pLaying computer video on Jan. 21, Reuters reported. are additional parts of the package. The gov­ games, the daily Tokyo Shimbun re­ "We have lost [the equivalent of] quite a ernment also announced its intent to impose ported on Jao. 17. big town," Vaganov saidof the 190,000 Rus­ another "solidarity surcharge"of 10% on the sians who died in 1992. "Matemity hospitals income tax, to pay for projects in the eastern • IBM CORPORATION an­ arehalf empty." Only 11 babies were bornper states of Germany. This tax,which is proposed nounced a fourth-quarter loss of $5.5 1 ,000members of the 150 million population to go into effectin 1995, may becollectedearli­ billion on Jam. 19. It was the largest last year, down from 12 in 1991. The death er. The first such "solidarity" tax, of 7.5%, ever loss for iany American corpora­ rate increased slightly to 12 per 1,000. was collected between the summerof 1991 and tion in any fiscal quarter, according "Few families dare to have a child," Vaga­ 1992, but instead was used to pay for the Per­ to media reMrts. nov said. ''They are unsure of their futureas sian Gulf waragainst Iraq.

EIR February 5, 1993 Economics 23 TIillFeature

Clinton's choiceI : Free LaRouche or suffer disaster

by Kathleen Klenetsky

Shortly after theNovember elections, former Den10cratic presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche issued a statement contain�ng a friendly warning to the newly elected Bill Clinton. The gist was that if th¢ new President did not move immediately to crack down on the multitrillion-dolk global financial bubble, the result of a decade of massive unregulated internati�nal financial speculation, any hopes he had of putting the U.S. economy on a l Pro-growth vector would be dashed, and his presidency would go down in ftam�s. "Contrary to the popular mythology which grip� public opinion among the so­ called reader of newspapers and viewer of televisi�n news and talk shows," said LaRouche in a Nov. 10 statement, "the problem i$ not . . . the deficit nor even the size of the federal official debt. The problem of'1the U.S. economy is a policy of deregulation unleashed during 1978-79 . . . by !the Carter administration and by Paul Volcker's leadership of the Federal Reservle System, which created ... the biggest international financial bubble in world "istory. That bubble is what is crushing the U.S. economy and the U.S. people," $aid LaRouche, "not the debt, and not the federal deficit. "Unless the Clinton administration changes its pblicy and recognizes that Ross Perot did not understand economics, did not recognilzethat the"Fed is the one thing they must attack-its policies, free trade, GATII [the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade], and this other nonsense-and instead fo llows my particular program, this country is going to spiral deeper and d�eper into the worst depression

of the 20th century. " I LaRouche's warning came as Wall Street was lapplying intense pressure on the President-elect to accede to policies directly th� opposite of what LaRouche recommended. Within days of his election, the WalllStreetJournal printed a front­ page article ftatly asserting that if Clinton went ahead with his proposed $200 billion infrastructureprogram (puny compared to tht actual infrastructure require­ ments of the U.S. economy), the financialmarkets �ould react by dumping U.S. Treasury bonds, wreaking havoc onthe U. S. economy.

24 Feature EIR February 5, 1993 Bill Clinton, during the presidential primary in February 1992 in New Hampshire, is handed a copy of a pamphlet on Lyndon LaRouche's "2255" appeal, documenting the evidence of government criminality in the prosecution against him.

That blackmail was reinforced a few weeks later, when deluded. It was the economy whic� did in George Bush-as the winter issue of the New York Council on Foreign Rela­ Clinton and his advisers well understood during the cam­ tions' journal Foreign Affairs published a lead article by paign. If Clinton persists in appl�ing austerity "solutions" investment banker Jeffrey Garten warning Clinton that the to a crisis that can only be dealt with by overthrowing the financial markets would "bring him to his knees" if he did stranglehold which the markets, in conjunction with the Fed­ not ii:nmediately adopt a regime of harsh domestic austerity. eral Reserve, have put on the U.S. economy, he will find Unfortunately for himself and the country, Clinton thus himself having the shortest political honeymoon on record. far has chosen to back off from those parts of his campaign The honeymoon has already s arted to sour. Every time platform which Wall Street opposes, including his promised Clinton reneges on a campaign promise, as the furor over tax cut for the middle class and, more importantly, the idea his about-face on the Haiti issue demonstrated, he alienates of using infrastructure investment to "grow the economy" another constituency. The Zoe Baird debacle has further out of its current collapse. eroded his credibility. In addition to these sins of omission, Clinton and his key Clinton has one alternativeto otherwise certaincatastro­ administration officials-many of whom, as we document in phe: He can ,adopt the economIc program proposed by the following profiles, speak for the worst pro-austerity, anti­ LaRouche, beginning with natiohalizing the Federal Re­ growth financial factions-have indicated an ominous will­ serve, and using it as a source of I w-interest credit targeted ingness to embrace the "markets' " austerity dictates. Clinton to reviving industrial and agricultmral production, and putting set the tone in his inaugural speech, whose President Kenne­ millions of jobless Americans to work. This would enable dy-mimicking rhetoric was punctuated by repeated calls for him to line up the U.S. population behind him, giving him "sacrifice. " the political base required to face down the financial elites. That wasn't just rhetoric on his part. The administration "So long as Clinton is committed to submitting to the bond is rife with talk of imposing new taxes and making deeper market and the Federal Reserve System, and as long as he's budget cuts. In the latest instance, Treasury Secretary Lloyd not prepared to take the measures tb bring these boys into line Bentsen said in a nationally televised interview on Jan. 24 and get the economy moving in the way I've indicated, there's that Clinton will likely propose a broad-based consumption no chance of anything but a failure from Clinton," LaRouche tax , possibly including new taxes on energy consumption, commented in a Jan. 19 radio interview . "And that's the crux when he unveils his economic program in February. of the matter. That's the breaking point. That's the point on If Clinton believes that such obeisance to Wall Street which he stands or falls. If he doI esn't do as I've recom­ will somehow guarantee his political survival, he's sorely mended, he's finished-he's finished before he begins."

EIR February 5, 1993 Feature 25 also asked to assess the situation surroundingthe Democratic Party Convention in Chicag�, which was targeted by anti­ Johnson demonstrators, including a hard core of terrorists trained by fonner national sequrity adviser and lifelong Skull Who's who in the and Bones man McGeorge B�ndy's Ford Foundation. In this period Christopher lworked with Vance on "Opera­ Clinton administration tion Garden Plot," which established Pentagon coordination I with the Justice Department and other domestic agencies to by Kathleen Klenetsky, Carl Osgood, and track and control political activists and use covert as well as Stanley Ezrol overt military force against p�tential domestic disturbances. Christopher, as recently puWicized documents show, lied Below we profile some of the key members of the incoming about his knowledge of Gard�n Plot during his 1977 confir­ Clinton administration . mation hearings for the post of deputy secretary of state. Among the "civil rights" actiivists working in collaboration with the Justice Department apparatus in this period, was Marian Wright Edelman, the protege of fonner CIA agent Warren Christopher, and Skull and Bones man Wil�iam Sloan Coffinand longtime secretary of state friend of First Lady Hillary clinton. During the Carter administration (1977-81), Christopher Warren Christopher, chainnan served as deputy secretary of �tate under Vance. During his of O'Melveny and Myers, the confinnation hearings, he pledged to act as Vance's "alter largest law finn in Los Angeles and ego," and, by all accounts, s�ceeded. As deputy secretary, one of the entertainment business's he was involved in sabotaging nuclear technology negotia­ top finns, is President Bill Clinton's tions between Gennanyand Brazil, and negotiating the Pana­ choice to be the next U.S. secretary ma Canal Treaty, the "Camp David" agreement between of state. Despite his modest family Israel , Egypt, and the United States, and the Iran hostage background, Christopher has release. He coordinated the Carter human rights policy which achieved remarkable heights in the contributed to the installatiort of the Sandinista regime in Anglo-American establishment, in­ Nicaragua and the Khomeini regimein Iran. cluding membership in the Trilateral In 1988, upon the election of Skull and Bones man Commission and the vice chainnanship of the New York George Bush to the presidency, Christopher served on the Council on Foreign Relations. His specialty is domestic and executive committee of the American Agenda, which pre­ foreign counterinsurgency. sented bipartisan policy proposals to Bush over the names of After his service in the Navy during World War II, he fonner Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford . Christo­ went to Stanford University Law School, emerging in 1949 pher co-chaired the agenda's foreign policy section with Kis­ as clerk for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. singer Associates President Lawrence Eagleburger, who was Returning to California in 1950, Christopher joined O'Mel­ later named Bush's deputy seclletaryof state and was Christo­ veny and Myers and began a career of activism in the Demo­ pher's predecessor as secretary of state. cratic Party . In 1959, he was appointed special counsel to Meanwhile, Christopher had become chainnan of California governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, the orga­ O'Melveny and Myers, which has been his base of operations nized crime-connected father of the more recently prominent while not in government service. That finntraditionally has Jerry "Fruitfly" Brown. From 1961 through 1965, he was a been entrusted with handling legal matters for majorfinancial special consultant to Undersecretary of State George Ball. In institutions, and for the entertainment sector. Under Christo­ 1965 , Christopher's career as a counterinsurgent began with pher, its clients include Security Pacific;Northrop; the Bank his appointment to the McCone Commission which studied of New York; Lockheed; Tru$t National Bank of Chicago; the riots in Los Angeles' Watts district. Goldman Sachs and Co.; the City of Los Angeles; the now­ This career path was continued through his 1967-69 ser­ bankrupt Canadian real estate giant Olympia and York; Da­ vice as deputy attorneygeneral under President Lyndon John­ vid Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank; Dr. Henry A. Kis­ son. One of his firstassignments in that officewas to tourriot­ singer; Citibank; Salomon Brothers, Inc.; IBM; The Irvine afflicted sections of Detroit with then-Undersecretary of the Company; the Club of Rome and the Aspen Institute's major Anny Cyrus Vance. The two of them recommended deploy­ sponsor, Atlantic Richfield; Nonnan Lear's ACT III Com­ ing the Anny's 82nd Airborne Division to Detroit. The fol­ munications; Castle Rock Entertainment; CBS; Columbia lowing year, Johnson asked Christopher to oversee the inves­ Picture's Entertainment, Inc.;, the allegedly sexy Morgan tigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, which Fairchild; Home Box Office; the Motion Picture Association detennined that assassin Sirhan Sirhan acted alone. He was of America; Burt Reynolds; Dinah Shore; James Stewart;

26 Feature EIR February 5, 1993 Walt Disney; and WarnerBrothers , Inc . his successor on how to deal with Slj.ddamHussein . Under Christopher's chairmanship, the firm has at­ Educated at Yale, Oxford, and the Massachusetts Insti­ tempted to develop international ties . It has established joint tute of Technology, Aspin was oqe of the original "whiz operations with the London firm MacFarlane's, and has kids" recruited to the Pentagon du�ng the Vietnam era by opened an officein Japan and taken on a number of Japanese Robert Strange McNamara, who introduced the disease of clients including Industrial Bank of Japan, Japan Airlines, systems analysis into U.S. military $trategy. When he joined Toyota Motor Co. , Nippon Oil, Nippon Steel , Marubeni, the House Armed Services in the 1 970s, Aspin took up the and C. Itoh and Co. cudgels against Pentagon "waste." Given the above list of multinational clients, it should be By the early 1980s, he had established himself as one of obvious that if Christopher was being candid when he the key congressional "experts" on military strategy. Down­ pledged during his confirmation hearings to recuse himself playing the Soviet military threat,! Aspin took the lead in from matters involving potential conflicts of interest, he'll promoting the nuclear freeze, bann�ng anti-satellite (ASAT) have a lot of free time on his hands at the State Department. testing, and forcing deep cuts in thelStrategic Defense Initia­ In 1992, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley named Chris­ tive program and other crucial weapons systems. topher to head a commission investigating the Los Angeles In 1985, Aspin led a revolt in the House Armed Services riots of that year. Despite the fact that those "riots" were Committee which succeeded in omning Rep . Mel Price (D­ shown by eyewitness accounts to be largely the work of a Ill.), a military traditionalist, and installing himself as chair­ small handful of youth gangs and trained terrorists connected man. From this position, Aspin a�vanced the campaign to to the same Ford Foundation and Justice Department appara­ complete the transformation of the lJ.S.military into an arm tus which Christopher had helped set up in the 1960s, Chris­ of Anglo-American financialpolic)1 , epitomized by the U.S. topher recommended that the Los Angeles Police Department interventions into Panama and Iraq � be blamed for the violence . A backer of the Nicaraguan reb¢l Contras, Aspin partici­ We can expect Warren Christopher to attempt to use as pated in the congressional panel th�t covered up crucial as­ secretary of state the kind of methods he 's used in the past. pects of the Iran-Contra scandal, including Bush's pivotal Although credulous figures in the Middle East believed, role. based on news reports of Zionist discomfort with Christo­ Aspin's strategic orientation cJ!osely resembles that put pher, that the Clinton administration might be less vicious forth in the W ohlstetter Report, ppblished by the Defense than its predecessor in the enforcement of the "new world Department at the end of the Reagjin administration, which order" policies, Christopher praised the Bush administra­ claimed that the major threat to U,S. interests in the future tion's bombing of Iraq which took place during his Senate would be in the Third World, and that the military would confirmation hearings. He can be expected to get along well have to be reshaped accordingly, �ith an emphasis put on with his old friend Cyrus Vance, who is currently the United developing rapid deployment force$ that could be sent quick­ Nations special envoy responsible for allowing the rape and ly to various regional "hot spots." During congressional hear­ slaughter of Bosnia to continue unimpeded. ings last spring, Aspin proposed a inew doctrine of preemp­ tive strikes against "would-be .lUclear powers" in the developing sector, saying that this �hould become the "stated policy" of the United States. Les Aspin, Aspin also subscribes to the view put forthin a controver­ secretary of defense sial draft Department of Defense glilidancewhich was leaked to the press last March. Authored by W ohlstetter collaborator Clinton's choice of Les Aspin to Paul Wolfowitz, the guidance, �hich was subsequently head up the Department of Defense toned down, at least for public c

EIR February 5, 1993 Feature 27 smaller, more flexible forces of a "conventional reaction" Brent Scowcroft, who appears �o be Woolsey's closest col­ type, using "smart weapons," to be deployed under a "multi­ laborator. In 1985, he was nameklto the Packard Commission lateral United Nations" mantle. on Pentagon reform, and head¢d an Atlantic Council study Given his close ties to the rabidly pro-Israel "neo-conser­ entitled "Defending Peace and! Freedom: Toward Strategic vative" crowd ofWolfowitz and Wohlstetter, it is not surpris­ Stability in the Year 2000." I ing that Aspin has received lavish political contributions from In 1987, Woolsey represented Michael Ledeen, a sus­ the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pected wrong-doer in the Iran-

28 Feature i EIR February 5, 1993 the limitations on the willingness of the Carter administration pating in by the intelligence reforms of the 1970s. to act with greater vigor was its belief in principle." Project Democracy's role in eastern Europe, where Al­ bright has been active, has been to insist on economic shock 1 therapy, which has, in every 10catio where it has been prac­ Samuel R. ('Sandy') Berger, ticed, driven living standards belo� communist-era levels. deputynat ional securityadvi ser This has already resulted in commu ist counter-revolutions in Lithuania and Tajikistan, and in grotesque civil warfare in Clinton has chosen a friend of 20 years to be his deputy dozens of locations in the former Soviet sphere of influence. national security adviser. Berger firstmet Clinton when they This pattern overlays Brzezinski's projected "Arc of Crisis" were both working on George McGovern's ill-fated 1972 from South Asia, through the Mideast, to North Africa, presidential campaign. Fulbright Scholar Berger had joined which, under Brzezinski's theory , will destroy the old order, that campaign after serving as special assistant to New York to make way for the new. City Mayor John V. Lindsay. He served as the deputy direc­ Albright is a member of the NewI York Council on For­ tor of the State Department's Officeof Policy Planning dur­ eign Relations, has taught at the Georgetown University ing the Carter administration, when Anthony Lake was the School of Foreign Service, and beenlan associate of Kissing­ director. Berger, a Harvard Law graduate and Council on er's Center for Strategic and International Studies. Foreign Relations member, has been an attorney for the Washington legal firm Hogan and Hartson, whence he has I represented Toyota Motors, the Polish Solidarnosc trade Lloyd Bentsen, union, and other clients. secretary of the trea�urI y

When Bill Clinton announced Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, his appointment of Texas Sen. Lloyd U. S. ambassador to Bentsen as his treasury secretary, he the United Nations commented: "I have chosen some­ one who will command the respec Madeleine Albright, whom Clinton has selected to be of Wall Street." That was certainl ambassador to the United Nations, is a former student of an accurate statement, as Wal President Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Street's enthusiastic response to th9 Brzezinski and joined Brzezinski's staff at the National Secu­ appointment evidenced. One of the rity Council. A native of Czechoslovakia, Albright emigrated wealthiest men in the Senate (his faJ to the United States when her father, Josef Kobel, a represen­ ther amassed a real estate empire es tative to the U. N., left the communist regime . timated to be worth $150 million �y buying up land cheap Prior to serving under Brzezinski, Albright had been Sen. from poor farmers in the Rio Grande Valley; he himself is l Edmund Muskie's (D-Me.) chief legislative assistant. Since worth over $7 million), Bentsen has ome to be known as one the end of the Carter administration, she has continued to of the key protectors of real estate, insurance, commercial serve as an operative of Harriman family foreign policy. She banking, and, of course, the oil indJstry in the U.S. Senate. was a founding member of the board of directors of the Center Through his promotion of various tax breaks, financial for National Policy, which was formed in 1981 as the think­ deregulation, etc., Bentsen has pe�ormed such an excellent tank for Pamela Harriman's political action committee, Dem­ job for these interests, most recently as chairman of the Sen­ ocrats for the Eighties. In 1989, she was named CNP's presi­ ate Finance Committee, that he's ndt only become known as dent, and continued in that post until her U.N. appointment. "Loophole Lloyd," but was able to dharge lobbyists $10,000 In 1984, she advised both presidential candidate Walter Mon­ each for the privilege of attending his monthly breakfast dale and his running mate Geraldine Ferraro. In 1988, she meetings (a practice he was forced to halt when it attracted advised candidate Michael S. Dukakis. negative scrutiny). He has had his campaign/ coffers filled to Since 1984, Albright has been vice chairman of the Na­ overflowing with generous donations by such Wall Street tional Democratic Institute for International Affairs, which firms as Goldman Sachs, which ga�e him over $13,000 be­ was established as the Democratic Party quasi-autonomous tween 1990 and 1992, and Baker a d Botts, James A. Baker non-governmental organization ("quango") of the National Ill's law firm, which contributed $10,000 in 1991. In Wash­ Endowment for Democracy. These quangos were established ington, where he owns a palatial residence, he and his wife under the rubric of President Reagan's "Project Democracy," count in their social circle such establishment exemplars as according to their founding documents, to continue the overt Elliot Richardson and former CIA qhief Richard Helms. and covert political operations abroad which the CIA and The man picked by Clinton to take charge of U. S. domes­ I other governmentagenc ies were barred by law from partici- tic and international economic policy has been intimately

EIR February 5, 1993 Feature 29 involved in one of the worst financialscandals of the century: pointed out, Bentsen had invested at least $250,000 in a the savings and loan bank debacle. Bentsen's participation mutual fund that invests only in foreign countries-including in one of the most suppressed aspects of this sordid episode, Japan.) the active collaboration between the CIA and the mafia in In the area offore ign policy, Bentsen has taken a particu­ siphoning off funds from a host of S&Ls during the 1980s to lar interest in Ibero-Americ�. He was one of the advisers financea variety of illegal and/or rogue operations, including to President Reagan's Central American Commission (the Iran-Contra, is documented in the 1992 book The Mafia, CIA "Kissinger Commission"), and repeatedly went to bat for the & George Bush by Peter Brewton (F.P.1. Books/Shapolsky Reagan administration's policy of funding the Nicaraguan Publishers, Inc., 1992). Contras-hardly surprising, ,inlight of his extensive links to Author Peter Brewton reports that Bentsen, after being CIA networks involved in thlltoperati on. chosen by Michael Dukakis as his vice presidential running Bentsen has also pushed: Ibero-American governments, mate in 1988, advised Dukakis not to raise the S&L crisis as and especially Mexico, to pqvatize their economies and lib­ a campaign issue. This saved great embarrassment not only eralize regulations restricting foreign investments. In a Sen­ for Bush, but for Bentsen as well, since both men had plenty ate speech in June 1988, aentsen said that Mexico must to hide about their participation in the dirtier side of the S&L face "economic reality" by s�lIing some government-owned mess. Indeed, in his introduction, Brewton notes that if the industries and changing its attitude toward foreign investors. Democrats had won in 1988, the book would have been titled As for the domestic econ�my, Bentsen became known as The Mafia, CIA & Lloyd Bentsen. one of the leading Democrat�c advocates of the misbegotten Brewton closely examines Bentsen's role in the S&L notion that the onl y way the United States can develop invest­ fiasco, focusing in particular on his relationship to secretive ment capital, is through imposing draconian cuts on con­ Texas millionaire banker-developer Walter Mischer, whom sumption. He also helped usqer Sen. Daniel Moynihan's (0- he shows to have been a key link between Bush, Bentsen, N.Y.) "workfare" legislation! through Congress in 1988. the mafia, and the CIA. Among other revelations, Brewton Just this last spring, Bentsen penned a commentary for reports that Bentsen owned three S&Ls which later ended the April S, 1992 Washington Post attacking President Bush up in the hands of CIA or mafia associates. One such was for failing to make deficit rfjduction his top priority. In it, JeffersonSa vings, which was bought from the Bentsen fami­ Bensten praised the work oft�e National Economic Commis­ ly by Guillermo Hernandez-Cartaya, a Cuban exile and long­ sion, a bipartisan group created in 1987 by Congress, with time CIA asset who had been the subject of several state and the assistance of Felix Rohatyn of Lazard Freres, to devise a federal investigations (quashed by the CIA) for embezzle­ formula for deficitreduction lI>asedon cuts in Social Security ment, drug running, and mafialin ks. and Medicare. Despite his patrician trappings, Bentsen will fit in well Similarly, in a speech to the National Association of with the Clinton administration. Considered the key player Manufacturers last July, Bedtsen said that "we have to be in the Senate on trade issues, Bentsen has an approach very considering . . . consumption taxes." Presaging what role he similar to Clinton's. He strongly supports free trade, and will play in the Clinton administration, Bentsen used the played a pivotal role in promoting the North American Free article to demand that President Bush "campaign on a pledge Trade Agreement (NAFTA). During the congressional de­ to eliminate the budget deficitno matter what it takes," add­ bate over whether to grant President Bush "fast track" author­ ing, "I would urge his Demqcratic opponent [i.e., Clinton] ity to negotiate NAFTA, Bentsen used all the power at his to outdo him in this regard rather than seek to undercut him." disposal to line up "yea" votes. According to knowledgeable That wasn't just rhetoric,: as his first major public state­ sources, he assisted Clinton during the campaign in coming ment (his Senate confirmationihear ings) since his nomination up with a formulation on NAFTAthat would appease labor shows. President Clinton is "without question" 'committed and other opponents of the treaty. to reducing the deficit in a "major way," Bentsen told the On the other hand, he also shares Clinton's commitment Senate Finance Committee. Asked how the administration to forcing U. S. allies to "open their markets." A harsh critic intends to achieve deficit reduction, Bentsen replied: "We of Japan and European Community trading practices, Bent­ have to address entitlements!' (Social Security, Medicare, sen headed the Senate Democratic Working Group on Trade, Medicaid) and raise taxes. through which he helped shape some of the key trade-war legislation developed in Congress over the last several years . When he was chosen by Dukakis as his vice-presidential candidate in 1988, the response in Tokyo was swift-and Roger Altman, negative. During the current round of General Agreement on deputysecr etary of the treasury Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations, Bentsen pressed the I White House to demand deeper agricultural concessions from One of Clinton's top econ�mic advisers during the presi­ Europe. (Ironically, as the Oct. 13, 1988 Wall Street Journal dential campaign, and a persqnal friend since they attended

30 Feature EIR February 5, 1993 Georgetown University together, Roger Altman will func­ mayor's Management Advisory T�sk Force and related tion primarily as a transmission belt for Wall Street's dictates posts, Altman has come up with that he has the gall to to the new administration. describe as "humane" ways to slashl the Medicaid program, Altman served as assistant secretary of the treasury dur­ which provides the only access mo�t poor Americans have ing the Carter era, where he helped organize the Chrysler to medical care , force "givebacks" d�wn the throats of union­ bailout, and collaborated with Lazard Freres's Felix Roha­ ized workers, and impose $5 tolls onlbridges into New York. tyn, in fashioning the "Big MAC" bankers' dictatorship for Ifhis Senate confirmation hearin$s are any guide, Altman New York City. The bulk of his experience has been in the intends to bring this same slash-and-burn economic policy private sector, specifically, investment banking of the most into the new administration. He insislted during his testimony speculation-oriented variety which has been largely responsi­ that the key to turningar ound the U . S. economy is to concen­ ble for the destruction of the U . S. economy. trate on deficit reduction. Altman albo called for new taxes: After Carter was driven from the White House, Altman "I do think that one form or another qf a new tax on consump­ went back to work for the old "Our Crowd" firm of Lehman tion is in order," he said, mentionin as possibilities energy Brothers, which had the dubious distinction of fielding the taxes or a national sales tax. gI firstjunk bonds ever. There, he promptly became one of the three managing directors responsible for the firm's invest­ ment banking activities. In 1987, Altman joined the Blackstone Group, an invest­ Robert Rubin, assist,nt ment firmesta blished in 1985 by Peter Peterson, the former to the President for i chairman of Lehman Brothers and current chairman of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, after Lehman economic policy I Brothers began to fall apart as a result of its financial excess­ In an interview with Time m azine earlier this year, es. Altman was quickly promoted to chief executive officer. Robert Rubin remarked that there �s no way that a Clinton The Blackstone Group specializes in merchant banking administration would handle the de cit as badly as the Bush and mergers and acquisitions (buying up failed S&Ls is one administration had, because the rI1-arkets wouldn't give a of its key profitmakers), and has been involved in some of the Democrat the same leverage they g ve the Republicans. largest Japanese takeovers of U. S. corporations, including He should know. �: Sony Corp. ' s purchase of Columbia Pictures. In March 1987, In choosing Rubin to head the I newly created National Blackstone put together a $630 million investment fund, with Economic Council, Clinton has let t�e fox into the hen house. participation by Nikko Securities, General Motors, and Pru­ Rubin represents the worst feature� of Wall Street, and has dential Insurance, among others, to, as Peterson put it, played a pivotal role in encouragin� the speculative and usu­ "move in opportunistically and make investments in dis­ rious excesses of the last two dec�es which are primarily tressed industries." Altman's personal client list includes responsible for the United States' �recipitous economic de­ Nestle as well as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, king ofthe corpo­ cline. Rubin spent nearly all of his Icareer "on the Street" at rate raiders. Goldman Sachs and Co., the last �aj or private partnership Altman's affiliation with Blackstone gives some clues as on Wall Street. to what kind of advice this son of Wall Street is likely to give Under the leadership of the lat�i Gustave Levy, the firm Clinton. Blackstone's founder (and Altman's close friend) pioneered many of the major finan�ial "innovations" of the Peter Peterson has been one of the most vocal advocates of past 20 years, including stock arbid-age, the practice of bet­ slashing social spending, especially for the elderly. Peterson ting money on the outcomes of co�orate takeover battles. has recently emerged as the brains behind the Concord Coali­ Rubin oversaw Goldman Sachs's atjbitrage departmentat the tion, founded this past fall by former Sens. Warren Rudman beginning of the 1980s, at the heig�t of the hostile takeover (R-N.H.) and Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) to lobby for deep cuts craze. During the same period, G�ldman Sachs also intro­ in entitlement programs and steep tax hikes. duced basket trading for institutioqal investors, which radi­ Another close Altman colleague at Blackstone is Jeffrey cally transformed the New York Stock Exchange. In 1973, Garten (they've written a number of articles together) . Garten Rubin was apparently at the fore ront of introducing and authored the lead piece in the winter 1993 issue of Foreign legitimizing options trading-the fitstt of the financial deriva­ Affairs (published by Peterson's Council on Foreign Rela­ tives markets to be developed in thelworld. Since then, Gold­ tions), which warns Clinton that if he doesn't immediately man Sachs has become one of t�e biggest players in the adopt a program of harsh domestic austerity coupled with international derivatives market, I the multitrillion-dollar pressuring Germany and Japan to reinflate their economies, source of major world financialins (ability. the financial markets will "bring him to his knees." Goldman Sachs has benefitted �ightily from these activi­ Altman's record places him solidly in the pro-austerity ties. Not only has the firmas a who/Ie grown in influenceand camp. In his capacity as co-chairman of the New York City power, but its senior personnel ha�e amassed huge personal

EIR February 5, 1993 Feature 31 fortunes through such parasitical practices. According to the to deal with these problems" pf the economy. "What I really Wall Street Journal of July 22, 1992, Goldman partners (Ru­ believe we need," he said, "i� a national resurgence directed bin was one of the firm's two co-chairman at the time) earned toward the long term, a williqgness to sacrificeconsumption more than $15 million each in 1991; some estimates put now and for quite some time. t' Rubin's earnings as high as $30 million per year-a far cry from the "man of the people" Clinton vowed to bring into his cabinet. In short, Rubin epitomizes the very practices which have wrecked the economy, and which Clinton claims to Leon Panetta, dirbctor, oppose. Nevertheless, Clinton has put Rubin into a position from Office ofMana ge�ent! and Budget which he could function as a virtual economic czar. The Rep. Leon Panetta bringsi to his National Economic Commission is a new entity, and its pow­ post a singular obsession with the ers remain to be defined. According to Clinton, Rubin's job budget deficit as the source iof the is to "coordinate, to facilitate, and to provide some direction nation's economic ills. Panetta, who to the deliberations of our economic council"-a description hails from Monterey, CalifoIDJia,be­ that would seem to allow tremendous latitude. gan political life as a Republi¢an, in One responsibility which Rubin does have in his new charge of the Office ofCivil Rights position, and one which has the potential for giving him in the Nixon administration. He inordinate influence over the President, is to provide him switched parties after being forced with daily briefingson economic matters, just as the national out of that office in 1970 for being security adviser does on strategic developments. As one Clin­ "too liberal." He was firstele4ted to ton adviser noted: "Power is proximity. Put Bob Rubin in the the Congress in 1976, and waS!

32 Feature EIR February 5, 1993 creases of nearly $500billion . Alice Rivlin, deputydirector , • The Carnegie Endowment Nlj,tional Commission on Office ofManage ment and Budget America and the New World, whichj in a report ("Changing Our Ways") released last summer, (jaIled for "significantly If anything, Alice Rivlin surpasses her new boss's mania raising energy prices," reducing world popUlation levels, and for budget cutting. For Rivlin, as for Panetta, there is no balancing the federal budget. Vis-�vis the last point, the means of generating surplus wealth in the economy. Instead, report states: "There is no painless solution to the deficit. We there is only, as Rivlin herself once said, the most efficient will need stronger discipline over spending, including limits means of distributing limited resources-and if that means on entitlement programs, as well as ibcreases in taxes." that some people must sufferterr ibly, then so be it. Rivlin comes to the OMB from the Brookings Institution where she was director of the Economic Studies Program during 1983-87. Prior to that she was director of the Congres­ Donna Shalala, secretary sional Budget Office. In addition to Brookings, she was of health and human services named to the board of directors of Union Carbide Corp., she received a teaching position at George Mason University in Donna Shalala's appointment to head the federal depart­ northern Virginia in 1990, and she is also a senior officialof ment responsible for administering Medicare, Medicaid, the Wilderness Society, and so brings an environmentalist welfare, and a host of other social prgrams clearly indicates bent to her policymaking. that the Clinton administration intenlds to elevate "cost con­ In 1990, Rivlin also served as chairman of the D.C. tainment" to new and dangerous heithts. Commission on Budget and Financial Priorities that was set Given that she has no backgrouOd at all in health care, up by D.C. Mayor Marion Barry in order to find solutions to which is the principal concernof Ht(S, one can only assume the city's fiscalprob lems. The Rivlin Commission's report, that she was chosen because of her bxtensive experience in released in November 1990, recommended reducing the ci­ administering savage cost-cutting programs. One of the few ty's work force by 6,000 positions and reducing the police female members of the Trilateral Commission, Shalala (nick­ department by 1,600 positions, including 1,000 that Con­ named "Boom Boom") cut her political-administrative teeth gress had just ordered the city· to add. back in the 1970s, when Wall Stre€it banker Felix Rohatyn The report was heavily criticized, especially by city man­ brought her onto the board of Big MAC, the supra-govern­ agers, because the commission did not make its recommen­ mental entity set up to dictate econotnic and financial policy dations based on actual work done by actual people, but to debt-strapped New York City. Rohatyn and Big MAC rather on organization charts and job descriptions. managed to keep the city's debt payments flowing, but at the Her approach to economics complements Panetta's. For cost of turning New York into a Third World city, leaving her, economics is "the science of hard choices. The basic much of its infrastructure in ruins, its middle class impover­ problem," she says, "is how to use limited resources most ished, and its poor driven to living i� the streets. efficiently." Like Panetta, she also believes that slashing the Assessing Big MAC's impact, $halala told the Jan. 1 5 , federal deficit must be the first order of business, and that to 1976 New York Times that it wou�d lead to "10 years of do so, large spending cuts are necessary. agony." Admitting that MAC's pol_cies had already driven She has also proposed a myriad of taxes, including a some businesses from the city, she, blithely went on to say graduated gas tax increase that would rise to $1 per gallon that "we will retain many of the cotporate headquarters, as over fiveyears , a "carbon" tax on fossil fuels, and a national well as the financial community, the fashion industry, the consumption tax. In conjunction, she sees a redistribution of theater, and the medical centers. Fnj.nkly, I'm optimistic." responsibilities back from the federal level to the state level, According to Rohatyn, Shalala, who served as Big including in the areas of education, work force skills, and MAC's treasurer and wrote the legislation that created the public infrastructure. Emergency Financial Control Board, did not balk at carrying During the election campaign, Rivlin participated on two out the massive budget cuts, layoffs , and other draconian key task forces convened by leading establishment think­ measures the panel ordained. He re�ently told the Washing­ tanks to proffer advice to the new President. Their recom­ ton Post that Big MAC directors were forced to make "ex­ mendations provide an ominous foretaste of the policies Riv­ traordinarily difficult decisions," including raising taxes, lin is expected to promote in her new position: laying off city workers, and freezing wages. But although • The CSIS Strengthening of America Commission, Shalala comes from a "very liberal l!>ackgroundand has very which called for balancing the budget by 2002 through reduc­ liberal tendencies," he said, she nev�rtheless "was absolutely ing federal deficits by $2 trillion over 10 years. The plan rock-solid when we went through tl1is list of horrors." relies primarily upon spending reductions, reducing cur­ Rohatyn, together with Hillary! Clinton, whom Shalala rently expected spending by 8% ($ 1.5 trillion), and tax in- replaced last year as chairman of th¢ board of the Children's

EIR February 5, 1993 Feature 33 Defense Fund, were reportedly responsible for convincing position, was seen as evidence that the Wall Street crowd in Clinton to name Shalala to the HHS post. the Clinton camp had won out in their fight to give deficit Clinton is likely to rely on Shalala's "toughness" to take reduction, i.e., austerity, pri�rity billing over fiscal stimulus. the point in implementing his own "list of horrors ," including The media campaign to portr�y Reich as somehow incompe­ his campaign pledge to "end welfare as we know it," and his tent because he didn't have J Ph.D. in economics, was part plans to restructure the U. S. health care system along the of the "markets" crusade to �eep Reich in check. lines of the notorious Oregon Plan, which proposed to strictly In the early 1980s, Reich was identified as part of the ration Medicaid funds. "industrial policy" crowd, bu then underwent a shift fromthe Shalala's other claim to fame is her involvement in the more protectionist-leaning tehdency of that grouping toward "political correctness" movement, which has earned her the rabid free-trade advocacy. sobriquet of the "Queen of pc ." An avowed fe minist and Most of his economic prescriptionsI are premised on the vocal supporter of abortion "rights," Shalala introduced the same fundamental misconce�tions that gave rise to the eco­ so-called "Madison Plan" shortly aftershe became chancellor nomic mess the United States now finds itself in-a fact l of the University of Wisconsin in 1987. The plan called for underscored by his involve ent in assisting then-Governor quotas for minority faculty and student recruitment, setting Dukakis in the development of the short-lived "Massachu­ up a multicultural center, and imposing an ethnic studies setts Miracle," now known as the Massachusetts Nightmare. requirement for all undergraduates. It has been severely criti­ First, Reich rejects the ne6d for the United States to main- I cized for lowering academic standards. tain a strong national industrial and agricultural base. In his Shalala also instituted a controversial speech code at the latest book , The Work of Na ions (1991), he argues that the university, which meted out penalties to students accused of predominance of the global )economy means that there no making alleged racial or sexual slurs. The code was declared longer exist "American" co panies as such. Rather, the unconstitutional by a federal judge last year. global economy consists of a collection of essentially na­ Although she has denied reports that she is a lesbian, tionless multinationals which locate their operations in what­ Shalala has made no secret of her staunch support for "gay ever geographic areas offer a! skilled work force willing to rights." She personally lobbied the Defense Department in work for cheap wages. Ther�fore , instead of attempting to 1991 to end the military ban on homosexuals and signed on build up its own high-tech industries, the United States to a lawsuit for that purpose. should try to attract multinati(jmalsI to its shores by upgrading Known to be extraordinarily ambitious and a shameless its work force and making limited investments in communi- . . I name-dropper, Shalala told Change magazine in 1989, "In catIOns an d transportatIOn systems. 1 contrast to most fe minists, I really think I am mentally and "Nations are becoming regions of a global economy; their emotionally an insider and a member of the establishment." citizens, laborers in a globaI 1arket," writes Reich. "Nation-. al corporations are turning into global webs whose high­ volume, standardized activitibs are undertaken wherever la­ bor is cheapest worldwide, an whose most profitableactivi­ Robert Reich, ties are carried out wherever rskilled and talented people can secretary of labor best conceptualize new problclms andsolutions ." A corollary Reich draws from this argurrlent is that "there is no longer Robert Reich has been the most any reason for the United Sdtes ...to protect, subsidize, public representative of the "pro-in­ or otherwise support its corpobtions above all others." frastructure" faction within the Clin­ Reich's even more fundalnental methodological flaw is ton camp. A friend and adviser to his failure to differentiate betlveen productive and non-pro­ the new President since their days ductive forms of investment. f,hile he has attacked the spec­ together as Rhodes Scholars at Ox­ ulative excesses of the 1980s as a waste of capital, he also ford , he drafted large parts of Clin­ insists that a nation's wealth €orrelates with the emphasis it ton's campaign platform, including places on training its work fbrce to become what he calls those sections which call for the fed­ "symbolic analysts," i.e., people who deal in concepts. eral government to increase invest­ But Reich doesn't limit this designation to scientists, ment in infrastructure and worker re­ engineers , and others who ale necessary to increasing the l training by approximately $220 billion over the next four productive powers of an eco omy, and includes a range of years-a puny amount in light of the multi trillion-dollar essentially parasitical activities, including: "public relations deficit in infrastructure investment which the United States executives, investment bankers, lawyers , real estate devel­ has piled up over the last 30 years. opers, and even a few creativ I accountants," not to mention Clinton's decision to put Reich at the Department of La­ "management consultants, fin ncial consultants ...organi­ bor, instead of giving him a more important economic policy zational development specialists . . . corporate headhunters

34 Feature EIR February 5, 1993 and marketing strategists, art directors, architects, cinema­ in the United States. tographers, filmeditors , production designers," etc . Signed by both Babbitt and Gorej the compact calls for Reich's hallmark proposal that the government step up a series of comprehensive environ�ental agreements that investment in worker retraining is designed explicitly to would "reduce greenhouse gas emissi�ns" by having Canada chum out more such "symbolic analysts." Reich goes so far and the United States "sharply curtail! their per capita use of as to advocate outright that the United States should encour­ energy," achieve "population stabiliz.tion" by mid-century, age "a greater portion of its work force [to become] Holly­ and enforce "reductions in the consumption of resources by wood moviemakers and slick advertisingmen ." the well-do-to." Reich underscored his commitment to the post-industrial Babbitt is no newcomer to envirohmental extremism. A service economy in an article in the February 1991 issue of longtime member of the Sierra Club Imd other "green" out­ Atlantic Monthly. Under the headline, "The Real Economy," fits, Babbitt's reputation as a foe of!nuclear power earned Reich detailed his proposal for an "industrial policy" predi­ him a seat on the panel set up to invdstigate the Three Mile cated on the expansion of computer technology and the ser­ Island incident. As governorof Arizqna, he pushed hard for vice sector. Reich wrote that it is meaningless to distinguish the adoption of overbearing environ�ental regulations. "goods" from "services," because "so much of the value During his abortive campaign fo the 1988 Democratic . t provided by a successful enterprise entails services." presidential nomination, Babbitt repe�tedly cited the alleged Although Reich has recently soft-pedalled the issue of threat to the environment posed by thb "ozone hole" and the austerity for obvious political reasons, he hasn't been so shy spread of chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs) and acid rain, invoked in the past. For example, in an article in the 1987-88 year­ the name of Teddy Roosevelt for a policy of creating more end issue of Foreign Affairs, Reich stated that reversing the "public lands," i.e., taking land out ofiagricultural and miner­ U. S. 's declining competitiveness would require scaling back al use, and vowed to convene a "sumniliton the environment" "aggregate consumption by . . . taxing more of Social Secu­ if he were elected. i rity benefits . . . reducing farm supports . . . and taxing Babbitt is expected to help sell the North American Free consumption directly-through, for ·example, a progressive Trade Agreement to the environment.list rank-and-file, who tax on a family's net spending." have taken the greenie propaganda sb literally that they are proving to be an obstacle to NAFT A, �y pushing for the addi­ tion of tougher environmental measutes to the pact. Over the past year, Babbitt ha� waged a crusade for Bruce Babbitt, NAFTA, predicated on strengthening its environmental pro­ secretary of the interior visions. In a commentary in the A�ril 22, 1991 Christian Science Monitor, for instance, Babbitt called for a "new Bill Clinton's appointment of world trading and environmental agteement. The Mexican Bruce Babbitt as secretary of the in­ trade negotiations [NAFT A] shoulds¢rve as the startingpoint terior drew rave reviews from the to explore the larger issue of the rel�tion between environ­ leaders of the environmental move­ mental standards and the entire GArr trading system," he ment. "It's wonderfulto have a con­ wrote. "The time is at hand for Americans to voice their servationist as interior secretary for a confidence in North American free �rade," he added. "It is change," exulted Dave Albserwerth also time to call for a larger vision---ta new world order that of the National Wildlife Federation. includes expanded progress on the g�obal environment. The Together with Carol Browner, the place to start is close to home-alo�g our own borders, on designated administrator of the En­ our own continent-with Mexico." i vironmental Protection Agency, Clinton will also no doubt rely !on Babbitt's extensive Babbitt represents the hard-core environmentalist faction connections in Mexico and other Ibeto-American countries, within the Clinton administration. should he decide to go in the directiQn outlined in the Gore­ The Harvard Law-educated former governor of Arizona Babbitt "Compact for a New World.'� Babbitt is a longstand­ and current head of the League of Conservation Voters shares ing member of the Inter-American Dialogue, which has ad­ much of the radical "green" outlook of Vice President "Mr. vocated that Ibero-American countri�s legalize drugs so they Ozone Hole" Gore. The two men have collaborated on a can use the proceeds to pay back the� foreign debt. number of environmentalist projects, most recently the so­ Babbitt holds "Mother Nature" lin much higher regard called "Compact for a New World." Released prior to the than he does human beings. That bia� is reflectedin his 1988 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit last June, the compact was presidential campaign platform, whith advocated a "univer­ produced by the New World Dialogue, a group of influentials sal means test" to cut Social Securit� and Medicareexpendi­ from the Americas convened under the auspices of the World tures, a national consumption tax o� 5%, and drastic reduc- Resources Institute, one of the leading eco-fascist think-tanks tions in farm price supports. I

EIR February 5, 1993 Feature 35 �TIillInternational

Pressure on Croatia marks countdown toWo rld:War III

by Konstantin George

On Jan. 25 , Helga Zepp-LaRouche released an analysis "Serbian RepubHc of Krajina." Yet the Croatianforces were warningthat "the short fuse for an internationalization of the ordered not to proceed beyond a certain line, thus giving the war in the Balkans has already almost reached its detonator. " Serbian forces time to regroup and, on Jan. 27, begin a Mrs . Zepp-LaRouche is president of the Schiller Institute in counterattack. Why? Germany, which has been exposing Greater Serbian geno­ Croatia, the victim of aggression simply trying to retake cide in former Yugoslavia for two years. its territory, had been subjected to an international slander She pointed out that the Serbian Parliament's apparent barrage giving it "equal blame" with Serbia. The territory in approval of the United Nations "peace plan" is merely "the question was supposed to have been demilitarized by the 135th attempt to lead the West around by the nose." The U . N ., cleared of Serbianfor ces, and turned over to Croatian Geneva "peace conference," she said, is only a "figleaf for administration. international confirmation of the territorial gains made by The hypocritical western stance is closely choreographed the Serbs in their unparalleled bestiality. The Bosnian Serbs with pro-Serbian Russia. On 'Jan. 25 the Russian Foreign openly acknowledge that their approval of the Vance-Owen Ministryput out a declaration threatening to seek U.N. sanc­ plan is only a temporary, pro fo rma move to slow down the tions against Zagreb, and watning that Croatia's offensive growing momentum for a western military intervention." threatens the security of Russian U.N. forces in the region. It is well known that Russia will not intervene militarily, Croatia not allowed to defend itself confining its involvement to sending in mercenary "volun­ A few days earlier, on Jan. 22, the Croatian Armed Forces teers ." But the noisy Russian protests provide the cover for launched their firstcounter-of fensive to begin liberating Serb­ the West to back off. ian-occupied Croatian territory since the deployment one year Contrary to the media myth of an invincible Serbian ago of the U.N. "peacekeeping" (Unprofor) troops, which Army, the Serbian military positionis objectively precarious have protected the Serbian conquest of one-third of Croatia. and fraught with weaknesses. The Belgrade communist But a vicious blackmail campaign by the westernpowers , and clique is mired in a small-scale repeat of the dilemma that the mediation of this blackmail through "internationally ac­ confronted the Nazis in the World War II. The more they ceptable" consensus policies by Croatia's Tudjman govern­ conquer , the more their forces become over-stretched, trying ment, is crippling the potential to halt the Serbian genocide. to hold their conquests and fighting adversaries on multiple The Croatian forces, operating from Zadar, advanced fronts. Serbia has taken about two-thirds of Bosnia, but at some 20-30 kilometers into the Dalmatian region called Kraj ­ the price of tying down large military forces, thus critically ina, inflicting heavy losses on the Serbs and capturing the weakening its forces in the ocrupied regions of Croatia. Just territory around the destroyed bridge at Maslenica, the only as with the original Nazis, whose mass murder increased overland link between northern Croatia and Dalmatia, and markedly after they had reached their military apogee, so in the airport at Zemunik outside Zadar. The offensive could this horrible winter, the Serbian genocide against the hun­ have threatened if not captured Knin, the "capital" of the dreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims is escalating.

36 International EIR February 5, 1993 By late January, all signs pointed in the direction of some prevent Germany from playing a ,*cisiverole in the econom­ form of western military intervention in response to the pub­ ic development of the nations to tlite east. lic outcry. But media coverage suggests that such an inter­ "The assassination in late 1989 of the chairman of vention will also increase the western chains of containment Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen-the only leading Ger­ imposed on Croatia. man economic expert with the courage to present a vision for Between Jan. 24 and 27, Croatia was "condemned" unan­ for the development of the East-and the idea of utilizing the imously by the "Big Five" in two U.N. Security Council Serbs in order to tie down contiqental Europe, particularly resolutions, and ordered to withdraw its forces from the terri­ Germany, were both products of' the geopolitical design of tory it had just liberated. The Anglo-American bloc leaned leading circles in Washington, Lond' on, and their co-thinkers especially hard on Germany, the only major European coun­ elsewhere. try friendlyto Croatia. German Foreign Minister Klaus Kin­ "Because Germany was not toi be allowed to economical­ kel issued, qnJan. 27, the most outrageous "warning"of all ly develop the East, or to gain 'in'uence in the Balkans,' the to Croatia, demanding an "immediate end" to the Croatian U.N. Security Council has been tqlerating the Serbs for years offensive, lest Croatia be "equated" with Serbia. as they have committed crimes against humanity which are without parallel in this century, hen when compared with Sabotaging intervention the Nazis' crimes .... This "co-aggressor" line has been rampant in western me­ "Prior to mounting any intervention, all participating dia. The German daily Siiddeutsche Zeitung ran a commen­ powers must openly declare that :it was this geopolitical in­ taryalleging that Croatia has quietly de facto "annexed one­ sanity in the tradition of Haushofer, Millner, and Mackind­ third of Bosnia," complete with-and here comes the next er-that it was the myth of a sup�sed 'Fourth Reich,' used Big Lie-"ethnic cleansing." The Jan. 28 London Guardian as a justification or the bestialiti¢s being committed by the raved: "In Central Bosnia, black-hooded Croatian fighters Serbs-which has brought the world to the brink of World mined and blocked most roads to make the area inaccessible, War III. Only in this way can W4 neutralize the danger and while carrying out .a bout of ethnic cleansing of Muslims. " prevent the geopolitical strategy of non-action from simply A French naval squadron, led by the carrier C lemenceau, becoming replaced by an equival�nt geopolitical strategy of was nearing the Adriatic on Jan. 28, and the British carrier military intervention. Ark Royal was heading for the Adriatic. Land-based aircraft "Furthermore, the priority demand must be that all states of France, Britain, and the Netherlands were on alert. The of former Yugoslavia must regainlcontrol of the territorythey U . S. carrier Kennedy. the helicopter carrier Guam. and other had prior to the firstbreakup of YlUgoslavia. If Serbia rejects warships were also on station. If military actions are designed this, targeted air strikes and other measures must be taken to to enforce the U.N. cease-fire lines running across Croatian prevent Serbia from pursuing its war of conquest against its territory, then they will amount to nothing more than a corol­ neighbors. The Serbian Air Forc:e must be deprived of its laryto the Geneva plan dividing up Bosnia. Such plans would ability to control the air space over all of former Yugoslavia. be a military respite for Serbia. "It is also high time that the Serbian military be held un­ equivocally responsible for the actions of the Chetniks, and What must be done that we no longer accept Milosevic's double-dealing games. Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche called Serbia's apparent compli­ "Peace can only be establish�d on the basis of enforcing ance with the Geneva plan just a short-term feint. She said, the borders of the previously exlisting states, and that also "the Serbs' preparations for their hoped-for territorial gains means recognizing the authority

EIR February 5, 1993 International 37 the conflict. In the Islamic world\ most regimes, led by Saudi Arabia, fear that the war in Bosniia will become a catalyst for "Islamic fundamentalism." ThiS in tum would affect U.S. long-term interests in the region. France is seeing its own political viability, and that of western Europe as a whole, dramatically undermined as a result of the thegeopolitically Germans weigh oriented policy it has pursued up to now. But on the other hand, France can not simply "leave it up to the Americans" military action to intervene in Serbia, since that would reestablish the United States as the dominant power in Europe. againstSer bia This ambivalence in geopolitical doctrine, whose results we have witnessed in the Balkabs since 1991, is especially evident with regard to Russia. Aiccording to the premises of by Michael Liebig in Wiesbaden geopolitics, a western military intervention against Serbia could lead to a new East-West Cnstitution. Germany's Ba­ tary intervention into Serbia, NATO's entire southern flank sic Law does not limit the deplCl>yment of German Armed would crumble, as Turkey and Greece take opposite sides in Forces to NATO's territory . Article 26 of the Basic Law

38 International EIR February 5, 1993 forbids all offensive wars , regardless of their form , location , or under what pretext they are conducted. German Bundes­ wehr participation in combat units in the framework of col­ 'Friends of Schiller' lective security systems, is permitted only when it is a ques­ tion of "bringing about and ensuring a peaceful and l�sting meet in Croatian capital order in Europe and between the peoples of the world" (Arti­ cle 24). At the same time, Article 87a of the Basic Law On Jan. 23, the Schiller Institute held a meeting at the U niver­ allows the German Armed Forces, without any geographic sity of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia, to explore the possibil­ restrictions, to be deployed for defensive purposes. Germa­ ity of setting up a Cultural Association of the Friends of the ny's constitutional bodies have the express duty to use mili­ Schiller Institute. More than 25 people attended, including tary means to protect the German people from harm, regard­ journalists who had previously published material frp� the less of where the assault on Germany's fundamental security institute and from EIR . engineers, government employees, interests emanates from. and EIR readers . The dec ision to participate in a military intervention The Schiller Institute was founded by Helga Zepp­ against Serbia is perhaps the most difficultone which Germa­ LaRouche in 1984, and has chapters around the world. ny h.as had to make since the end of World WarII . If it comes The Zagreb seminar was opened by Paolo Raimondi of to a military intervention against Serbia, this would have a Germany, who outlined the geopolitical goals of the Anglo­ dramatic impact on Germany's domestic political situation. Americans and their role today in this new Balkan war, He Germany would become a de facto "frontline nation," along compared the geopolitical notions of Halford Mackinder. with Hungary, Austria, and Italy. WesternEurope , and espe­ Lord Kitchener, and Karl Haushofer at the tum of the centu­ cially Germany, would cease being a peaceful area behind ry , with the views of Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the front, where life could go on more or less without disrup­ et al., aimed to prevent the development and integration.o{ tion. The prevailing lifestyle in western Europe, with its the Eurasian continent, He explained that the pJ,"ograms' of emphasis on physical possessions, hedonism, entertainrhent the Schiller Institute derive from the fundamental idea of man culture, and alienation from Christianity, would be chal­ as imago viva Dei-,-in the living image of God. lenged. But it should also be considered that certain waning This concept was developed further by Elke Fimmen, political forces might unscrupulously use the objective "state also of Germany, who explained why the Schiller Institute of emergency" in order to keep themselves in power. was named after the German poet Friedrich Schiller (1759- Moreover, Germany would be threatened on its own soil 1805), the poetof freedom and republicanism who fought to by Serbian terrorist low-intensity warfare actions. Military make culture the highest point of the political fight to free experts reckon that Serbia is already engaged in intensive men and nations from the oligarchical systems. Fimmen also efforts to acquire ballistic missiles. Missiles with a range of outlined Lyndon LaRouche's program for a Paris�Berlin­ 1,000 kilometers could strike targets in southeastern Vienna Productive Triangle of economic development, to Germany. spark the revival of Europe as a whole. There is much talk about how , for historical reasons, Sheila Jones, from the United States, spoke about the Germany cannot participate in any military action against political persecution of LaRouche in America, and his effort Serbia. On April 6, 1941, beginning with a merciless air to create a movement based on reason, to defeat the corrup­ bombardment of Belgrade , Nazi Germany assaulted Yugo­ tion of the ruling elite which is leading to a third world war. slavia, which capitulated on April 17, 1941. Particularly in She spoke about the fight of the U.S. civil rights movement, 1943-44, partisan forces were locked in brutal battle against and the recent merging of the best parts of that movement the German occupation forces. These historical events, how­ with the LaRouche movement internationally. ever, do not alter the fact thattoday it is Serbia which is guilty EIR Editor for Russia and Eastern Europe Konstantin of waging an offensive war and of committing genocide and George exposed the economic disaster that followed the im­ monstrous war crimes. Past crimes are no reason for us to plementation of the International Monetary Fund's austerity tolerate crimes being committed in the present. programs in the East European countries. Croatia was re­ In Europe, the time for avoiding and ending war solely cently accepted into the IMF, and the media have created a by political and economic means, is now behind us. Under false expectation of aid and development as a result of this. the present historical circumstances, Germany and France Many participants signed a letter to President Clinton, de­ have no choice but to systematically expand their military manding freedom for LaRouche. It was agreed that the first cooperation with the aim of mounting an intervention against step of the Friends of the Schiller Institute should be thepublica­ Serbia. This military alliance must be constructed on the tion of literature in the Croatian language. Later, steps will be basis of the Franco-German Treaty of Jan. 22, 1962 between takentoward the formation of an official association. The main French President Charles de Gaulle and German Chancellor Croatian dally Vj esnik published a report on the conference, Konrad Adenauer. focusing on theSchiller Institute1s attack on theIMP.

EIR February 5, 1993 International 39 Billington tour in Mexico bUiJds · support to free LaRouche by Carlos We sley

I There is widespread support in Mexico for the demand to a "crime" which was not even on the books at the time he free u.s. political prisoner Lyndon LaRouche, according to was indicted! His conviction bY,tj he Virginia court came after activist Gail Billington, who conducted a lO-day visit to that his own defense lawyer argue4 at trial that Billington was country in January. During her visit, she met with members insane and required psychiatric �valuation. The judge refused of Mexico's Congress, including with the president and the to allow Billington to fire his ijostile lawyer, who not only ranking member of the Committee on Human Rights. Her failed to present a defense, but In his final argument claimed tour, which took her to Mexico City, Guadalajara, and to that his client was guilty! i Ciudad Obreg6n and Hermosillo in the northern state of So­ The same judge later uphel4 a 77-year sentence for Bill­ nora, also included meetings with state legislators, the me­ ington-about 30 times more th�n that received by junk bond dia, leading figures from all the major political parties, and swindler Ivan Boesky. Billingtqn's case involved $76,000in civil and human rights organizations and bar associations, political loans. In contrast, jun� bond king Michael Milken, to inform them about the gross violations of human rights who admitted he made billions �n phony transactions, served occurring in the United States. She appealed to them to join only 22 months in prison. I the InternationalCoalition to Free Lyndon LaRouche, and to Mrs. Billington was re eatedlY asked, "Why is sign a letter demanding that U.S. President Bill Clinton free LaRouche treated so brutally?t' She reminded listeners of LaRouche, undoing the injustice to him committed by LaRouche's decades-long fightjagainst International Mone­ George Bush. tary Fund (IMF) usury and for tPe economic development of Nearly 30 prominent Mexicans joined in support of the the Third World, of his proposals for a debt moratoria and for coalition's initiative, after listening to Billington describe the the establishment of an Ibero-A�erican Common Market, of years-long effort, led by Henry Kissinger, the Anti-Defama­ the fact that he traveled to M�xico at least four times to tion League of B 'nai B'rith, and the sundry governmentand meet with industrialists, farme�s , and government officials, private agencies that make up the anti-LaRouche task force, including former President Jose L6pez Portillo, to help devel­ to jail LaRouche and destroy his political movement. Her op strategies to implement thesJ programs. husband, Michael Billington, a LaRouche fundraiser, is cur­ rently serving a barbaric 77-year jail sentence in the state of 'Imago viva Dei' Virginia for allegedly selling "securities" without a license. "LaRouche's enemies hav� criminalized policy differ­ The 70-year-old LaRouche has just completed the fourth ences," she told a group of att�meys. "His proposals are to year of a 15-year federal prison sentence for "conspiracy." reorganize the economy aroun the concept of man in the Another LaRouche associate, Rochelle Ascher, is serving a image of the living God (imago �)Iiva Dei ) , whereas Kissinger

lO-year term in a Virginia prison, while several other and his masters are genocidali�ts, they don't believe each LaRouche activists are out on bail pending the results of their individual human being is sacrt1d." She called upon the law­ appeals on sentences of up 46 years in prison, imposed as yers to sign the letter to ClintQn and join the International punishment for their political activity. Coalition to Free LaRouche. After several moments of si­ Virtually everyone Gail Billington met in Mexico, in­ lence, the head of the group said words to the effect: "We cluding the hard-bitten reporters attending the news confer­ have to take a stand; we can'tj�st sit by." Every one of the ences she held jointly with Marivilia Carrasco, a leader of lawyers came forward and sign�d up. the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement, was visibly Reportedly Mrs. Billington had the same profound, very I shocked as she described the Kafka-esquedet ails of the rail­ personal impact on others with! whom she met. Almost ev- roading of her husband. While serving a three-year federal eryone volunteered to do somet�ing besides signing the letter prison sentence for his political activities as a co-defendant to free LaRouche and the otherS, and many thanked her for of LaRouche, Billington, in a blatant violation of the consti­ inspiring them with her courag . Several of the signers also tutional protections against double jeopardy and similar state indicated that they would lau�ch� their own initiatives to statutes, was tried by a Virginia court, using exactly the same overturnthe increasingly Confe\:lerateorientation of the U . S. fake evidence employed to convict him in federal court, for justice system, as shown by �e use of the "Thornburgh

40 International EIR February 5, 1993 blacks, poor whites, and Hispanics (the majority of whom are Mexican-Americans). One such case is that of Ricardo Aldape Guerra, a Mexi­ can national who is awaiting execu ion in Texas after being convicted in a trial which saw the u e of coerced testimony, suborned witnesses, and the suppre sion of exculpatory evi­ dence. There is also much anger at t e United States for its economic policies which are ruinihg Mexico, despite the constant barrage of propaganda rerrding the non-existent benefits of the North American rree Trade Agreement (NAFf A). The municipality of Guaymas, for example, be­ came officially bankrupt while mrs. Billington was in Mexico. Although President Salinas ap ears to have everything under control, under the surface evbry institution and party is splintering because of the disastdrs of the IMF free trade policies pushed by the United Stat 1 s. Many in Mexico see LaRouche as the alternative to suc policies, leading them to join the International Coalition to Free LaRouche.

Documentation

Gail Billington with her husband Michael Billington. outside the EI Sol de Mexico courthouse in Loudoun County. Virginia in 1986 . Michael Excerpts of the article by Axel Trujillo which was pub­ Billington is serving a 77-year prison term on lrumped-up charges lished on Jan. 13 by theMexico Ci daily El Sol de Mexico. of H securities fr aud. " It was entitled. "2 .600 Persons� entenced to Death by U.S.A . Justice: Gail Billington." Doctrine." American "j ustice," which condpmned to death Mexican Among those who signed was Luis Cotero, the president Ricardo Aldape Guerra and violated international law in the of the National Federation of Bar Associations, and Pedro kidnapping of Dr. Humberto Alvatez Machain, has, as its Vargas Avalos, president of the bar association in the state premises, the forcing of confession I , negotiating the partici­ of Jalisco. Support for the coalition's initiative cut across pation in trials of witnesses with c iminal records, and the party lines, as the signers included a cross-section of the hiding of exculpatory evidence. parties represented in Mexico's Congress-Rep. Cecilia American human rights activist Gail Billington affirmed Soto of the PARM; Rep. Pablo Emilio Madero, formerly of the foregoing as she explained that under this kind of "jus­ the PAN ; Rep. Jorge Moscoso of the PRO; and Rep. J.J. tice," 2,600 persons in the U.S. are ! entenced to death, 40% Gonzalez of the ruling PRI-and other political figures, such of whom are black and 7% of whom are Latinos, who are as Jesus Gonzalez Schmall, the internationally respected confinedpr incipally injails in Texasl California,and Florida. Christian Democratic leader of the Democracy and Doctrine "If every day they executed one person condemned to Forum, which split away from the PAN when the leadership capital punishment, the rest of the bentury wouldn't suffice of that party allied with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. to complete this macabre labor," strbssed Gail Billington. She said that every year the co�rts of her country con­ Outrage at fascist U.S. justice demn 300 persons to death, and tHat since 1973, after the The response Mrs . Billington got is also due to the out­ reinstitution of capital punishment, 189 criminals have been rage Mexicans feel at the Thornburgh Doctrine, which was executed, 1992 being the year witli1 the greatest number of used by the U.S. governmentto justify the kidnapping of Dr. cases, 31. . .. Humberto Alvarez Machain, a Mexican national, from his The spokeswoman explained thaIt Michael Billington, her own country and put him on trial in a Los Angeles federal husband, was accused of financial f�aud and sentenced to 77 court, which acquitted him, and the fact that the United States years in prison in ajudicial process hich was "prejudiced," leads the world in the number of people incarcerated and in plagued with irregularities and pa ial proofs; besides the the barbaric use of the death penalty, particularly against fact that the accusers, in this case t e government of former

EIR February 5, 1993 International 41 , i President Ronald Reagan and the Anti-Defamation League, the leaders of human rights or.anizations .. hid exculpatory evidence, which has become known in the Tribuna del Yaqui : last two years .. .. Excerpts of the article fil�d fr om the city of Hermosillo She stressed that her husband Michael Billington ...did by Humberto Corral. that appeared in the Jan. 20 issue of not commit the alleged offense of "security sales fraud." the Sonoran daily Tribuna del Yaqui. It was entitled "Bush What he did, in fact, was to raise money for the various Policies in the U.S. GovernmJnt Criticized." political campaigns carried out by the organization founded Gail Billington, a human ghts activist and member of h' by Lyndon LaRouche in the U.S. more than 20 years ago. the political movement of yndon LaRouche, presented At the same time, Mrs. Billington is fighting to obtain some shocking statistics here bout violations of the Univer­ exoneration for political activist Lyndon LaRouche, 70 years sal Rights of Manoccurring in he country that is our northern old and condemned to 15 years in prison in a maximum neighbor. security prison in the U . S. , of which he has served five [sic]. She noted that the citizen is vulnerable regarding hu­ Gail Billington will meet with the Human Rights Com­ man rights because they [the U.S.] lead in the number of mittee of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, and with various people imprisoned. 'The curr nt year will be more tumultu­ personalities from all strata of the country, as well as with ous, both on the international cene and domestically, if Bill Clinton does not change the j dicial policy of the outgoing administration.". . . To give an idea of the hig rate of violations against the Universal Rights of Man in t e United States, she said that l out of 4 of all black men b tween the ages of 18 and 30 Gail Billington years, is either in jail or on pr ation .... reflects on her tour The leader from the po 'tical movement of Lyndon LaRouche brought her messa e to this city, to make known the other side of the America government and to point out Returning to the United States after her mid-January that now is the time for the n w President, Bill Clinton, to tour of Mexico to obtain support to fr ee Lyndon change the administration of j stice in the United States. LaRouche. her husband Michael Billington. Rochelle i Ascher. and other persecuted associates ofLa Rouche. ! Gail Billington had these reflections on her visit. I We must refuse to Uniformly there was a strong personal, emotional, even physical response to my briefingon the politicaland legal atrocities committed against LaRouche, my husband Mi­ live like sla es chael Billington, and other LaRouche associates in the � series of federal and state criminal cases that have been Political prisoner Michael Billington wrote the fo llowing carried out in the United States. This included emphati­ message. entitled "Imprisone4 in the Capital of the Confed­ cally the responsefrom thepress .... eracy. " fr om his prison cell on j/an. 6. He has been sentenced There is tremendous anger at the United States for to 77 years by the state of Vir inia . It was delivered by his the way in which it acts as the self-appointed arbiter of wife. Gail Billington. to the pe�ple of Mexico. "human rights violations," while adamantly denying i the existence of any such violations against its own Confederate law has regional I ower, not only in the South, citizens .. .. but over the U. S. federal go ernment. The law is not re­ One frequently asked question was, "What is the strained by natural law nor by Constitution whose purpose U.S. population doing about this? Why aren't they was to approximate natural lal , based on God's creation of more angry?" man in his own image. The la� of equity among individuals My answer was that the U.S. population, addicted and among nations-that each! individual or nation is sover­ to TV culture, has become devastatingly morally pas­ eign, based on God-given in lienable rights, and must be sive, and unable to distinguish between reality and granted the same rights and frel. doms, and constrained by the fantasy. But equally importantly, I warnedthat this TV same code of justice, as eve other sovereign individual culture-soap opera, Oprah-style "tell all" sensational or nation-is essential for the� development of the potential talk shows, and MTV-style rock video-and the fast creative powers of each indivi, ual (which is the purpose of food, McDonald's-style culture are the biggest, most each nation's sovereign eXist Ce). It has been replaced by corrupting, and most obnoxious exports of the United the view that law is simply tha� which best serves the policy States. On this point, there was universal acclamation. of those in power. The syste claims moral neutrality, not because all people are treated equally, but because questions

42 International EIR February 5, 1993 of truth and justice are not permitted to interfere with the imposition of the chosen policy, and the punishment of those who oppose it. Thus were we railroaded by this Confederate system­ just as those who opposed slavery were "guilty" under Con­ Menchu delivters death federate law. This is not moral neutrality, but legislated evil, which sentence to Guatemala cannot be tolerated by any moral human being. The decision by Gretchen Small to destroy the political organization associated with Lyndon LaRouche was fascist in nature-intentional implementation I of evil-as well as illegal under constitutional law . The deci­ Working with the United Nations, *obel Peace Prizewinner sion to try me twice in the state of Virginia-once in federal Rigoberta MenchU is using the re,atriation of some 2,400 court and once in state court-was part of the same evil. The Guatemalan refugees from their M xican exile this January, 77-year sentence was one of several examples where those to launch an organizing drive by the,lnarco-terroristGuatema­ involved in this evil chose to publicly flaunttheir evil, using lan National Revolutionary Union RNG) for a U.N.-com­ terror to force submission. munist takeover of Guatemala siIlllduilar to what is now oc­ This is the view from which the Thornburgh Doctrine curring in neighboring EI Salvador j derived. The policy of the U.S. governmentwas declared to The process now under way in Quatemala is another dra­ be above any restriction of constitutional or international matic case of the U.N. creating a c Hsis where none existed. law, simply on the basis of the power of the government to Despite the wild lies in the media, Quatemala is not suffering enforce it. a civil war, but from terrorists whose capability was in the I recently discovered in my China studies from within the process of being eliminated. The URNG did not succeed in prison system that the intellectual forefathers of the "new organizing a mass base for its ope�ations, and emphatically Confederacy" and the ThornburghDoctrine , i.e., those who does not enjoy mass support from the Indian population. formed the Confederacy in the 1850s, were the same individ­ MenchU and the URNG, with whom she has worked for uals who helped the British carry out one of the most evil more than 10 years, now believe that, with the aid of the deeds of humanhistory : the Opium Wars and the subjugation U.N., they will finally be able to I divide Guatemala along of China. Then-U .S. Secretary of State Caleb Cushing and ethnic lines, force the Indians into ,their hands, and unleash his friends in the diplomatic corps and in the Protestant mis­ a war against Christian civilization itself in the country. sionary societies in China worked openly and with great military force in the 1850s and 1860s to impose "free trade" Mayan sacrifice revived in opium upon the millions of Chinese. They had their own In an interview with Vision m�gazine in late 1992, re­ "Thornburgh Doctrine"-Cushing believed that the only law printed in Peru's Expreso newspaper on Jan. 17, MenchU of nations was the law of Christendom. His view of "Chris­ unveiled the deeper goal of this ethqicwarfare . The revival of tendom," of course, had nothing to do with Christianity, but "ancient religions" such as the Ma)fanis criticalto "national was only a name for the policy of the most powerful nations liberation," she stated. She denoun�ed attempts to character­ in the Christian world, Britain and America. Under the false ize Mayan priests and priestesses .s "satanic" or sorcerers, banner of the cross, they enslaved millions of Chinese and called for these Indian religions to become "a challenge through drugs, a policy of menticide in keeping with their to the Catholic and Evangelical chl,Jrches" and "to 500 years chattel slavery in the South. of plunder"-her view of western:civiliz ation. "Why can't Simultaneously, these interests worked with their French the Mayan religion be the officialr� ligion?" she asked. associates to arrange the invasion and occupation of Mexico. The bestial concept of "Indian religion" espoused by We defeated the ThornburghDoctrine and the Confedera­ MenchU was first summarized in a document on Indian phi­ cy once before. Our Lincoln today is in prison, and the Con­ losophy prepared in 1981 by the InternationalIndian Treaty federacy controls most of the national institutions. Through Council, of which MenchU is a spqkesman and board mem­ the North American Free Trade Agreement and other means ber. That document, presented to aU.N. Indigenous Peoples they are re-occupying Mexico and much of the Third World. conference in which MenchU parti�ipated, decried mankind The Opium War today is carried out against the entire world's as "the weakest of all creatures,'" less worthy even than population, especially their own citizens, which is one mod­ wolves, because "humans are onl)( able to survive through em form of slavery . the exercise of rationality since tPey lack the abilities of Our advantage is the power of truth. God's will is just­ other creatures to gain food throu� use of fang and claw." if we do not allow fear and greed to obscure our minds. If European science and religion is �o be rejected, the group we refuse to live as slaves, regardless of the consequences in argued, because "rationality is a curse." our personal lives, then we will be free, and we can win this Little is known about the actu� Mayan religion, as the war. Mayan civilization collapsed betvyeen 600 and 900 A.D.

EIR February 5. 1993 International 43 north along some of the worst roads in the country. The activists stated openly that they sought to pressure the gov­ ernmentto negotiate a "peace tlieaty" with the URNG. When the government refused, Menchii demanded that I the U.N. force the government to back down. Guatemalan President Jorge Serrano denounbed the plans as "dangerous," pointing out that it was completely unjust that "Rigoberta Menchii wants to take a 780-�ilometer tour with children, elderly, pregnant women, dog , and chickens." Over 8,000 refugees had already returned orne in small groups without a problem before Menchii beca�e involved, he pointed out. Menchiialso insisted that tHe returnbe gotten under way immediately, even if there was 10 time to prepare the logistics to provide adequate food, water, and road repair along the way. The government backed aown, under what one U.N. official described as "the interhational blackmail" wielded by the refugees. When the refJgees, over half of whom are children or elderly, complaine� to Menchii over the condi­ tions to which they were being. subjected, she dropped all pretense of being an advocate of peaceful change. Ad­ Over 45 , 000 Indian peasants returning to Guatemala have become dressing a rally at the camp in uehuetenango the first night political pawns of R igoberta M enchU and narco-terrorists. Above, in Guatemala, Menchii remindetl, the refugees that their motto an Indian child in 1985 . had long been "Fight to Return Returnto Fight." The repatriation has already achieved one of its goals. (long before the Spanish arrived). The attempt to revive a Seeking to deflectinternational pr essure, on Jan. 19 President distinct Mayan religion today is largely the work of foreign Serrano announced that his gdvernment will hold "peace" anthropologists, both westernand Russian , who have studied talks with the URNG narco-tertorists over the next 90 days, the area. Christine Weber, the producer of a two-hour special and invited U.N. monitors to G�atemala. on the Mayan religion aired on Jan. 20 by Public Broadcast­ It was not coincidental that t¥ announcement was made the ing Service in the United States, admitted to the Washington day before Bill Clinton was sworn in as U.S. President. The Post that she discovered in doing the film that American last Democratic administration i� Washington suspended U.S. interest in the Mayan religion "is sortof a cult," promoted at military assistance to Guatemala, to protest alleged "human such places as the Smithsonian Institution. rights" violations against insurrehtionary forces. With many of What its promoters have proven, however, is that by the the same faces of that Cartergovernment now retumingto office, time of their collapse, human sacrifice and a cult of death the government feared even wotse sanctions. and blood had become central to their religious rituals. In April, the U.S. committ which reviews access to the The promotion of a violent "Indian" religion conducive Generalized System of Prefere geces is scheduled to hear a suit to ethnic warfare, is directed at more than Guatemala. As brought by various U. S. non-governmental organizations Expreso noted, now that Menchii has broken the taboo on sympathetic to the URNG, de anding Guatemalan products l discussions of these pagan religions, "ancient religiosity be denied the duty-free acces which GSP status allows. could take on much greater force" worldwide. NGO activists admitted to the �an. 11 Journal of Commerce that busting up Guatemala'S military is the goal of the suit. Mench6 orders: 'Return to fight' With one-half of Guatemala's exports going to the United Negotiations over the repatriation of over 45 ,000 Guate­ States, were Guatemala to be !excl uded from the GSP, the malan refugees, who have been living in southern Mexico in effect on the country's economr would be devastating. U.N.-run camps since the early 1980s, began months ago. By inviting the U.N. in, however, Serrano walked into Everything was set for the first major group to return in the trap set by Menchii, as th URNG quickly made clear. January-until the political activists who dominate the refu­ We will talk, they answered, �9 rovided we receive the same gee camps demanded that the return become a weeks-long concessions the U.N. forced o� El Salvador: the dissolution publicity stunt. Instead of returningby the route proposed by of civil defense patrols, the res riction of governmenttroops I the government (a 65-mile trip straight to their old lands), to negotiated areas, a 50% reduction in the Armed Forces, the activists demanded the refugees travel 215 miles down and the establishment of an "a hoc commission" composed the main highway to the capital, stopping for "welcoming of four Central American former Presidents and a U.N. repre­ parties" in every village along the way, before heading back sentative to oversee the purgin� of the officer corps.

44 International EIR February 5, 1993 Citizen Above Suspicion?

Time to probe thedealin gs of Australia's lsi Leibler by an EIR Investigative Te am

I In the last two years, Mr. lsi Leibler, co�chairman of the The Leibler brothers-lsi, Mattk, and Allan-are the World Jewish Congress, has moved into the limelight in sons of a diamond dealer from Antw�rp, who fledEurope in Asia. 1939. As documented by EIR 's b�k Dope, Inc., the dia� In November 1991, Leibler, a citizen of Australia and mond trade is one of the major intet'pational circuits for the Commander of the British Empire, conducted a high�profile flow of money laundered out of thel drug trade. lsi Leibler tour of many Asian capitals including New Delhi, Beijing, was in the diamond trade himself until 1963, when he started and Tokyo. Leibler told the Australian Jewish News that Jetset, his own ticketing and booking travel agency, in Aus� the tour "had been undertaken at the request of the Israeli tralia. Moores Fine Jewelry and otllter diamond operations governmentand in full cooperation with it." Indeed, Leibler are still under Leibler family control; is credited for New Delhi's willingness to recognize Israel To get an idea of the dirty nexu$ the Leiblers appear to and open diplomatic relations with the Zionist state. But, be at the center of, begin with a littlel storyof suspected drug as Leibler told the press, in addition to the Israeli Foreign traffickingin the South Pacificisla nd of Papua New Guinea. Ministry, "the U.S. State Department, in liaison with the World Jewish Congress (WJC), had requested" the trip, and The dogs go wild the "Australian government had endorsed it with full diplo� On Aug. 8, 1991, Dennis SteV!enson, an Independent matic assistance in every Asian capital." Member of the Legislative Assembly for Canberra, stunned In 1992, Leibler organized a festival in Beijing, spon� the chamber by naming the bosses of Australia's drug and sored by the World Jewish Congress, to improve Sino�lsraeli pornographic video operations. On¢ of those he cited was ties. The same year saw another Leibler whirlwind tour of Alexander Gajic, whose lawyer, Leon Zwier, traveled to the Asian capitals, this time to lobby leaders for the repeal of the United States "to negotiate with vjuious organized crime U.N. "Zionism is racism" resolution, an endeavor in which groups to set up a deal to import and: franchise X�rated vid­ Leibler succeeded. eos." Zwier, Stevenson noted, "was :recently made a partner Leibler has come a long way since February 1981, when of Arnold Bloch, Leibler, and Assdciates." The firm is the he pronounced himself "deeply honored" that newly inaugu� home of Mark Leibler. rated WJC president Edgar Bronfman, scion of the Sea� Gajic was notorious as a self�confessed drugdealer who gram's empire, had "personally extended to me" the post had been interrogated by the Stewatt Royal Commission in of chairman of the World Jewish Congress' International 1982. Why was his lawyer joining Mark Leibler's law firm? Advisory Committee. In 1984, Leibler was given another This is not the first time that people who work closely boost when he was asked to set up the Asia Pacific Jewish with one of the Leiblers had been iinvolved in operations Association of the World Jewish Congress, which set the smacking of organized crime. stage for the 1991-92 tours. On March 6, 1985, the customs unit at the Jackson Air� Leibler's new-found prominence on the Asian scene rais­ portin Port Moresby, Papua New GUinea, brought their spe� es the question: Is Dope, Inc. making a big push into Asia cial drug-sniffing dogs in to examin� an executive jet about behind the screen of Leibler' s World Jewish Congress? to take off for Australia. Upon sniffing luggage and partsof This article is the firstin a series on the Leib1er family. the plane, both dogs went wild. As the customs unit prepared The most prominent organizers of the Zionist lobby in Aus­ to search the plane morethoroug hly, � on-board phone rang. tralia, there is mounting evidence that the Leiblers are also It was Papua New Guinea Prime M�ister Michael Somare, up to their eyeballs in dirty operations, some of which are who spoke to the officer in charge ahd ordered the customs already under examination by the Australian Parliament. unit off the plane.

EIR February 5, 1993 International 45 Detective Constable Sam Kei reported that when that by Somare' s cabinet over thd opposition of the comptroller officer, Chief Inspector Tuka, heard that the prime minister general of Customs, who wanjledin a confidential memo that himself was coming to the airport, "Tuke appeared to be he was bothered by "uncertalinties over the company such shocked. . . . I could not believe that the search was to be as unprofitability, the drug-running suspicion ...[a nd] the aborted. To my mind the dogs' reactions warranted a more involvement of certain Australian lawyers and a law enforce­ thorough search of the aircraft." ment officer who are not directors or shareholders of the Unknown to Kei or Tuka, the prime minister had just company." eaten lunch with the plane's passengers two hours before. Australian Federal Police �ad asked the Papua New Guin­ The passengers were: ea police to conduct surveillance of Pelair as part of an inves­ John Aston, one of Sydney's leading lawyers. Aston tigation into a suspected dru� operation, involving former made headlines two years earlier when the Stewart Royal New South Wales policemarl Murray Riley. Riley, it was Commission investigation into Australian drug trafficking known, had earlier used the Nugan Hand bank to pay for found that Aston was a conduit between the notorious Mr. heroin importations. Asia drug syndicate, and the Nugan Hand bank, a drug mon­ The "law enforcement officer"referred to was New South ey-laundering institution with multiple ties to the CIA. Wales homicide squad Sgt. iohn Duff, who had been in­ John Johnson, owner of the chartered jet company, Pel­ volved with Johnson in a pre�ious airline since 1980. Duff air. Aston was also a consultant to Pelair. Over the preceding was called before the Stewart:Royal Commission in 1982 to decade, Johnson had run a series of jet charter firms, all of answer questions about his 'close friendship with Aston. which had been closely associated with Sir Peter Abeles's Then, in August 1985, he w4s suspended from duty, when transport giant, TNT. TNT not only dominated Australian a sergeant with the New So�th Wales Bureau of Criminal transport, but had extensive operations in Europe, the United Intelligence charged that Duf. had told him of plans for drug States, and China. Abeles was often referred to in Australia smuggling between Papua Nqw Guinea and Australia. Duff as the "White Knight" for his suspected role in narcotics wanted to be tipped offabout �urveillanceof several Sydney trafficking. Mark Leibler is the tax adviser for TNT. criminals, including Murray $.iley. Sonnie Lipshut, an arms dealer. Lipshut was an associ­ The Pelair company was! the latest in a line of charter ate of Mark Leibler, and his wife worked for Leibler at the companies run by Johnson. the first was Southbank A via­ Zionist Federation of Australia. Lipshut and his wife were tion, whose major sharehold�rs included Johnson and one both board members of the Israeli Aircraft Industries. In Barrie Loiterton. Southbank'� major client, and according to 1980, Leibler incorporated a Melbourne firm, Intercorp, to one source, half shareholder, �as Sir Peter Abeles's TNT. handle the sales of the Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) in the As for Loiterton, he had �lso been named in the Stewart South Pacific. Royal Commission as selling I land in Fiji to members of the IAI, one of Israel's largest employers, was set up by Mr. Asia drug syndicate. Loi�rton had joint real estate deals Adolf Schwimmer, who employed numerous members of with Abeles's partner, Sir At1hur George. When Loiterton's the Meyer Lansky crime syndicate while smuggling materials own company went bankrupt � 1974, his major development to the Jewish forces in Palestine during World War II, as part holdings were sold to Abeles IlDdGeorge . of the Baltimore, Maryland-based SonnenbornInstitute . The "drug-smuggling sus' icions" raised in the Customs memo intersected the "unp� ofitability" question. One of Israeli aircraft and chartered jets Johnson's companies was os nsibly flying vegetables from Aston, Lipshut, and Johnson were in Papua New Guinea Cairns in northernAustral ia t� Papua New Guinea, but given for two reasons. The first was to sell three IAI aircraft for the price of vegetables, it wa� inconceivable that the compa­ $10 million to that nation's Armed Forces, orders which ny would not operate at a ma�sive loss. would likely otherwise have gone to the Australian Govern­ Unless, of course, it wert:!flying something else. ment AircraftFactor ies. As the Australian ·Natio�al Times newspaper of Oct. The three were also trying to set up a new worldwide 4- 10, 1985 put it, "In the llite 1970s, there were regular joint airline between Johnson's charter jet company, Pelair, reports that operators with s�all aircraft were using P.N.G. with Air Niugini, the Papua New Guinea government-owned [Papua New Guinea] as a �taging post to import drugs airline. Pelair already had permission to flybetween Papua across the unprotected bord�rs of northern Australia." In New Guinea and Australia to export fish. the 1980s, one of Sir Peter Abeles's companies suddenly Both proposals were approved by Prime Minister So­ won the contract for survefllance across that coast. Sir mare. It is notable that opposition figuresin the Papua New Peter Abeles also held th¢ contract with the Chinese Guinea Parliament charged that Ansett Airlines of Australia, state freight-forwarding com.,any Sino-Trans, for exporting owned by Sir Peter Abeles, had financed the election cam­ goods from China around 1jhe world. The largest single paigns of Somare and his party. drug production zone in t4e world is China's Yunnan The Pelair-Niugini new worldwide airline was cleared Province bordering on B�a and Laos.

46 International EIR February 5, 1993 Report from Bonn by Rainer Apel

Scandals target Kissinger's friends economic and technology spheres. Senior politicalfiguresfrom several parties are exposedfor Questions are also emerging around the new minister of economics, Gunter corruption and ties to organized crime. Rexroth, a senioI' member of the Free Democratic Party. Instrumental in his appointment was I FDP party chairman everal friends and associates of cymakers in the United States who Otto Count Lambsdorff, a member of HenryS A. Kissinger are under fire for have considered Lafontaine as a politi­ the Trilateral Commission and close ac­ corruption here, with the schrapnel cal challenge to the German Chancel­ quaintance of it� chairman, Paul A. flying across the political spectrum. lor Helmut Kohl feel tempted to invest Volcker. (Henry i(issingerwas a former Who benefits? It's still hard to say, but in this "political alternative," as they chairman.) Lambsdorff, chairman of the sensational scandals certainly do did in the election campaign of 1990 the European sedtion of the Trilateral have the effectof distracting attention (which saw Lafontaine's defeat) . Commission, had been forced to resign from the most important policy issues: Among those who have kept close as federal economics minister in 1984 the war in the Balkans and the econom­ contact with Lafontaine are those he over scandals that involved his role as ic crisis. met during his April 1992 tour of the party treasurer. ; First on the target list is Oskar La­ United States: former Secretary of Rexroth, mi�ister of economics in fontaine, vice chairman of the Social State Henry Kissinger, Secretary of the municipal administration of West Democratic Party (SPD) and state gov­ State James Baker, National Security Berlin from 198 to 1989, became a ernorof Saarland. Adviser Brent Scowcroft, and Sen. member of the board$ of Citibank in The Jan. 18 issue of the weekly Sam Nunn (D-Ga.). June 1989, and �ook over the bank's Der Sp iegel had a report on alleged During that visit, Lafontaine ad­ German branch if).Frankfurt inJanua ry mob contacts of Lafontaine and his dressed select audiences at the Ameri­ 1990. In the reShuffle at the Berlin longtime friend Reinhard Klimmt, can Council on Germany and Stanford Treuhand agency after the assassina­ contacts that could be traced back to University. tion of Treuhand head Detlev the mid- 1970s when Lafontaine be­ Two other German politicians Rohwedder (April 1991), Rexroth be­ came mayor of Saarbriicken, the state have been involved in scandals that are came one of the ,agency's vice chair­ capital. It seems that Lafontaine used also important for the United States. men, assigned to �he control of the rel­ to frequent an exclusive night club, Matthias Wissmann, the young Chris­ ics of the forme� East German arms­ "Le Cascade," which was owned by tian Democrat who became new minis­ smuggling, mon¢y-Iaundering empire the French mobster Hugo Lacour. ter of research and technology in of Alexander S�halck-Golodkowski Lacour's escape from a Saarland Chancellor Kohl's January cabinet re­ which did business with Ollie North's prison in 1987, the sudden acquittal of shuffle,is on the court record as a con­ cabal. Rexroth's testimony still is to be

one of his girlfriends in a trial a year victed tax evader in an affair dating heard before the I Bonn parliamentary later, and the fact that one of Lafon­ from 1980. committee that is investigating that taine's bodyguards was one of La­ His tax evasion became known in "Schalck" compkx. cour's men, raise many questions for Bonn a week after Wissmann was According tp sources, Rexroth the SPD leaders. swornin as cabinet minister, but eva­ also used U. S. cqnnections developed In 1992, one of the leading issues sion was played down by Kohl's press during his time . at Citibank, in the on the agenda of the SPD was that of spokesman as "a sin of adolescence." background of severalTreuhand deci­ decriminalization of drug use and traf­ But it will certainly add to voters' im­ sions in 1991 add 1992, which gave ficking by addicts and "small-time pression that corruptionand violations preference for the sale of attractive dealers." Now people are asking of law are part of the biography of Berlin real estatf1to such murky U.S. whether SPD links to organized crime many, if not most, senior politicians in "investors" as Mark Palmer, Ronald could be the driving element behind the country. Lauder, and othhs of the Center for that dope legalization campaign. Moreover, the scandal discredits a European Develqpment Corp. These questions had better be an­ man who is viewed as one of Kohl's Most ofthese!matters haven't been swered before Germany enters the prime envoys to the new Clinton team, looked into seri usly yet. But a few campaign for the 1994 parliamentary because Wissmann knows many of its more revelation�4 will make very bad elections, and before influential poli- members personally, mostly in the headlines for seqior politicians soon.

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wrote, "of copiously ministering to its cli­ The total �aralysis of the German political Honecker hails ties ents two ingredients which, curiously class is both ridiculous and sad. Every time of Stasi with the We st enough, always accompany one another: vi­ the Germaps move, they are accused of be­ olence and pornography.... I accuse the ing 'Nazisltrying to build a Fourth Reich.' In spite of the Cold War, the East and We st television 'of our country of using sophisti­ But these �cusations also provide a pretext, German intelligence agencies maintained cated apparatuses and equipment with the an alibi, tpr the Germans not to do any­ good cooperation, said Erich Honecker, the aim of turningentire segments of the popu­ thing." lation into imbeciles . . . a generation of He bla ed the French political elite for former head of the communist German ln' Democratic Republic, in an interview with weaklings. . ..I accuse Brazilian TV of reinforcin this view. "The French, for de­ being the destroyer of the most true and in­ cades, ha gone to the Russians, first the the journalEl PeriOdico shortly after his ar­ : alienable moral values, be they personal or rival in Chile on Jan. 16. czarist Ru sians, then the U.S.S.R., in a Honecker, who was acquitted in a Berlin social, family, ethical, religious, or spiritu­ flirtation against Germany ....The French trial the week before and was allowed to al. Destroyer, because not only do they are the trliPitional friends of the Serbians, leave Germany immediately afterward, said mock them, but they dissolve the conscience although 1Ibe English and the Americans that the cooperation between East Germa­ of the TV spectator, proposing instead the have jum�d into the game." He said that ny's foreign intelligence agency, the Stasi, worst counter-values. In thissense, the busi­ these pow�rs were all involved in the "Baby­ and We st Germany's counterespionage ness of demolishing the family and the highest lon of dipl6macy and initiatives ," which was agency, the Bundesverfassungsschutz family values--love, faithfulness, mutual re­ preventing a firm containment policy to� (BfV), had "really been optimal and pro­ spect, self-denial, and self-control-<:arried ward Serbia. ceeded at the highest level." Both sides "in­ out daily, above all by the soap operas, is The sdurce warnedof the formation of formed and supported each other," Honeck­ frightening. Instead of this: debauchery and "an Orth�ox Church line in Europe," ex­ er said. dissolution, adultery, incest. . . . tending frQm Belgrade, through Athens and These remarks tend to confirm what "Who killed the young actress? It would Bucharest ito Moscow, which he considers knowledgeable observers in Germany have be ingenuous not to point out, and send to extremely �angerous. pointed out: that the sudden release of Hon­ the seat of the accused, a co-author of the "Wherl I see these wars among the ecker was linked to his inside knowledge murder: Brazilian TV." churches, iwhen I read the tabloid press in about dirty aspects of East-West relations A recent study showed that in one week the BalkaIls, when I see the signs, I am re­ this year, the 0 Globo network's "entertain­ minded o the mood before World War II. before 1989. Somebody would like to keep � that information under wraps. ment" shows presented 244assassination at­ Now, it al� stinks of a third world war." The same considerations also apparently tempts, 397 attacks, 190 threats, 11 kidnap­ secured the freedom of East Germany's for­ pings, and 5 violent sexual crimes. mer foreign intelligence boss, Markus Wolf Camb"diama y be (now living in Berlin), and his chief trouble­ shooter Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, Balkan analyst sees headi�gforpartition the "business" partner of Oliver North. In the interview, Honecker mentioned world war looming Cambodi�may be partitioned by the Khmer that he is still working on his autobiography, Rouge an!! the Phnom Penh government which he is committed to publishing later "It stinks of a third world war," a prominent afterthe planned United Nations-sponsored this year. Balkans figure told EIR in a discussion in elections iIn May, both Indonesian Foreign mid-January, concerning the international Minister Ali Alatas and Australian Foreign repercussions of the currentcri sis. Minister Gareth Evans said on Jan. 22, ac­ Brazilian cardinal: He expressed full agreement with the cording to [the International Herald Tr ibune. view that the origins of the war could be Both men �ave been very active in negotia­ TV creates imbeciles found in a geopolitical effort to isolate and tions of th� peace agreement for Cambodia. weaken Germany, and thereby weaken Eu­ Due t� financial constraints, the U.N. In the wake of the satanic murder of a televi­ rope. "The Serbs have always portrayed Security qouncil has decided that the elec­ sion soap operastarlet, Cardinal Lucas Mor­ themselves as the bulwark against pan-Ger­ tion will '* held in May as planned, even if eira Neves, of Bahia, Brazil, issued a mani­ manism, as the 'stabilization agent' in Eu­ the KhmeIfRouge guerrillas refuse to partic­ festo against television, published in Jornal rope. It's an old song, with a new singer ipate. KhrlterRouge leader Khieu Samphan doBrasil Jan. 13 under the title, "I Accuse." today. As a result of the operationnow, Ger­ told Alata$ that he will boycott the elections "I accuse Brazilian television," he man foreign policy has become paralyzed. and the pejlcepro cess.

48 International EIR February 5, 1993 • YASSIR iARAF ATaddre ssed an Israeli televi$ion audience on Jan. 21. calling Israel to agree to a di­ rect meeting0* Iwith the leaders of the "We do have to contemplate the possibil­ military-linked nationalist media are warn­ Palestine Li�ration Organization. "I ity. after the election.of some proportion of ing that the U.S. attack on Iraq is a prelude call once again on the prime minister. Cambodian territory not being effectively to an attack on Serbia. Mr. Rabin. �nd his government to controlled by those parties contesting the On Jan. 19. Pravda. formerly the daily agree to a mei:ting of the courageous. election-maybe the order of 15-20%." Ev­ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. in order to establish a courageous ans said. "We do have to contemplate the wrote that "the • warnings• given to Baghdad peace." Arafat said. The address was possibility of 500.000 or 600.000 out of 9 are addressed also to Belgrade." Washing­ set up by Isrlleli peace activist Abie million Cambodians being in those areas." ton. the paper charged. is acting like "an Nathan. I "Partitioning is something nobody internationaljudge which is going to put the wants. but now. however. time is running Serbs on trial." and which "can kill Muslims • IBRAHIM SOUSS, the Paris short." Alatas said. If the Khmer Rouge in one spot of the world while claiming to representative of the Palestine Liber­ does not participate in the elections. "you want to protect them in another. in this case ation Organization. has gone into cannot speak of a comprehensive solution." Bosnia-Hercegovina." hiding becau�e of an alleged plot to Since Jan. 18. the Khmer Rouge has held The daily Sovietskaya Rossiya wrote on kill him. The! French Secret Service. 12 U.N. personnel hostage in their head­ Jan. 19 that Russia. Serbia. and Iraq "form which is cUr¢ntly protecting him. is quarters in Pailinin westernCambodia. a triangle." and Russian policy must be to said to have �een informed of a plot protect the other two: Sovietskaya Rossiya involving thlt Hamas grouP. which also warned that "the attack on Iraq is a opposes the ItLO. Hamas has denied prelude to a possible attack on Serbia." Great Russians offe r the accusatio\l. aidto Saddam Hussein Germans discuss lifting • ISRAEL :is one of the few states that is still sUl>plyingSerbia with mil­ Russian expansionist Vladimir Zhirinov­ of Bosnian arms embargo itary goods, 3ICcordingto an unnamed sky. chairman ofthe Liberal Democratic "internation expert" quoted in the Party. and a group of supporters flew to German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said German daily� Siiddeutsche Zeitung Baghdad on Jan. 24 to offer support to Sad­ on Jan. 20 that Germany is considering lift­ on Jan. 26.1 Latest shipments in­ dam Hussein against the United States. the ing the arms embargo against Bosnia. "but cluded 10 light tanks. spare parts for London Sunday Times reported. "We will the decision must not be taken lightly and tanks. and M�G-21 fighteraircraft. blow up a few Kuwaiti ports and airplanes. not be taken on our own." according to a plus a few American ships in the Gulf." Reuters report. "We must consider it togeth­ • PERU'S Shining Path terrorists Zhirinovsky said. Zhirinovsky received 6 er with our partners and. if the vote in the have assassi�ated! 14 candidates in million votes in Russia's presidential elec­ Bosnian Serb parliament fails. carefully the Jan. 31 municipal elections and tions in 1991. Now. "give me $1 billion. and weigh up all the pros and cons." have declare� an "armed strike" for I will be President of Russia." he said. Chancellor Helmut Kohl also said that the cities ofi Lima, Ayacucho, and Zhirinovsky visited Baghdad last year the embargo might have to be lifted. Huaraz. ThiS! means they are threat­ and held discussions with Saddam Hussein. Kinkel emphasized that the international ening to kill abyone who goes to vote. It is due to pressure fromthe Russian politi­ community must weigh the moral justifica­ One hundred candidates have re­ cian's associates that Russia withdrew two tions for providing arms for people to defend signed froml the race because of warships fromthe Gulf which had been sent themselves. against the dangers of pouring threats. there in October •. the Sunday Times re­ more weapons into the Balkans. "Of course ; ported. we have a moral and ethical duty to help • IRAN'S .upreme leader Ayatol­ Zhirinovsky stated that the United States peopledefend themselves; but on the other lah Ali Khatnenei urged Georgian is "on its last legs; it will be starving in hand. the delivery of weapons could be President Eduard Shevardnadze in a five years' time." He said the U.S. would hugely counterproductive and bring the op­ meeting on �an. 21 to help prevent collapse. just as the Soviet Union had. "We posite of what one wanted." Kinkel said. Serbian cri�s against the Bosnian are going to Iraq to whip up anti-American The Bosnian governmenthas for months Muslims. "Whoever helps the Serbs fervor and to unite the Arab world against pleaded for an end to a United Nations ban in their pe ation of those crimes .. the U.S .. he said. One supporter predicted on arms deliveries. imposed before fighting shall be con emned by history, and that "the millennium of the We st is coming started in Bosnia. saying that it would not Georgia can� lay an influential role to an end." need foreign military intervention if it were in preventin those crimes," he said. Meanwhile. Russian communist and only allowed to defend itself.

EIR February 5. 1993 International 49 • �ITillReviews

Canyou fight a conspiracy, if you say it doesn't eXist?

by Valerie Rush

floweringof the drug-rock coulllterculture in the 1960s. Under the guise of helping children to "discover their own Why JohnnyCan't Tell Right FromWr ong: values" (values-clarification) and develop "critical thinking" Moral Illiteracy and the Case for Character skills, says Kilpatrick, the affective education model has Education "helped create an educational system with a de facto policy by William Kilpatrick of withholding from children tbe greatest incentive to moral Simon and Schuster, New York, 1992 behavior-namely, the convidtion that life makes sense." 366 pages, hardbound, $23 Self-esteem, once judged a b�-product of achieving some­ thing worthwhile, of making .a contribution to society, is today definedin the schools as '�self-acceptance." The central Kilpatrick's newest book on the lack of moral, or what he message of all of these affecti�e programs is "you're fine as calls "character," education in the schools is a useful, if you are ," "you are you, and t,at is enough," and so forth . flawed, contribution to the war that parents and other citizens The Platonic argument for teaching children to fall in love have begun to wage against the New Age takeover of the with virtue, says Kilpatrick, has been replaced with the hedo­ American public school system. His review of the drug-, nistic philosophy of falling in love with oneself, of judging sex-, and "life skills" education programs that now dominate the good to be "whatever gives, me pleasure." so much of our children's schooltime concludes that the non­ In his chapter on affectivedrug-education programs, such judgmental, value-free, "me"-centered approach of these as Quest, Dare, and Smart, Kilpatrick documents the repeat­ programs is not only deliberately designed to shatter tradi­ ed failure of these programs to' curb drug abuse. Study after tional family- and church-centered values, but is creating a study of these programs yields the incontrovertible proof that generation of moral illiterates "who know their own feelings, tobacco, alcohol and drug ab�se dramatically increases as but don't know their culture." the result of these non-judgmflntal programs which eschew In particular, he takes aim at the so-called "affective "authoritarian guidance" (i.e. definingright and wrong) and education" model that, since the 1960s, has infiltrated class­ which tum educators into "neutral facilitators" of "self-dis­ rooms nationwide from its California spawning grounds at covery" sensitivity sessions. As Kilpatrick observes, these the Esalen and Western Behavioral Science Institutes. Kil­ programs' emphasis on self-expression, rejection of author­ patrick traces the evolution of the affective, or "human poten­ ity, and the quest for the true ilimer self is "indistinguishable tial," movement created by Carl Rogers and Abraham Mas­ from the philosophy that insp�red the original outbreak of low from its 1950s roots as a (questionable) form of wide-scale drug experimentation" in the 1960s. psychotherapy for the emotionally disturbed to its now wide­ Standard sex education manuals used in junior and senior spread application in virtually every public school curriculum high schools regularly advise; students to "tune out" their across the country. Rogers was one of the founders of the parents' voices, to "make your own choices," and to develop "sensitivity" or "T-group" session which facilitated the tolerance for the choices of oth¢rs . As Kilpatrick notes, these

50 Reviews EIR February 5, 1993 • programs have "resulted in classrooms where teachers act youngster they sent off to kinderg en. Yet his concluding like talk show hosts," where the merits of different forms of proposals on how to solve the moral nd cultural crisis facing contraception, techniques of masturbation, and the whole Am�rican society are a little like tr ing to cure cancer with gamut of sexual acts are discussed in a "value-free" environ­ chicken soup. He prescribes hearty d ses of "character-build­ ment. With the emphasis entirely on "safe" sexual tech­ ing" stories and "singable songs" n the home , and more niques, says Kilpatrick, "the link between character and sex" discipline, ceremony, and behavior odes in the schools. is eliminated. He also recommends that if pa�ents can't find a public school free of the curse of "affectiye education," they can Multicultural obscenities tum to religious schools, private sch�ols, or home-schooling. Kilpatrick is most courageous when he takes on that polit­ In this, he fails to consider I) that sujch options are economi­ ical obscenity known as "multiculturalism," or "political cor­ cally beyond the reach of most Ame icans; 2) that promoting rectness." As he admits, "Being against multiculturalism is the option of private schools fostersl the very condition of an a little like being against motherhood." He blasts "feminist" educated elite versus the illiterate !' masses" that the public curricula which define morality as a "male value," and such school system was created to preve ; and 3) that even were ethnic programs as "Afro-centrism" and "indigenism," it possible to provide the ideal pri ate education for one's which deemphasize and distort western civilization while child, there is no avoiding the fact th t that child must eventu­ fabricating new versions of black or Indian history in order ally enter a society increasingly do inated-culturally, po­ to "boost the self-esteem" of minority students. Says Kil­ litically, and morally-by the braipwashed victims of the patrick, these curricula are not efforts to teach history and New Age. i culture but are rather invasive forms of psychotherapy. "Self­ Kilpatrick's "character-building1' proposals evade the re­ acceptance, rather than knowledge, sets the agenda." ality that what we are faced with is n

equivalent of a Tower of Babel. The result is bound to be today in identifying the twin evils 0 the Enlightenment and both cultural and moral confusion." What is a child to do Rousseau's Romanticism, reinc ated as "deconstruc­ with the bits and pieces of various cultures he is offered? tionism" or "post-modernism," as t e philosophical roots of With the deemphasis on teaching western Judeo-Christian "affective education." Yet he insists hat "there is no conspir­ civilization, the child is left "adrifton a sea of relativism with acy here." He traces the influenceof ietzsche, and Frankfurt no compass," he concludes. School conspirators John Dewey, J an-Paul Sartre, and oth­ Kilpatrick also targets the thunder of rock music with ers of their ilk, in producing the oral indifferentism that which children are bombarded at home, on the street, and permeates American society, but till insists "there is no even in the classroom. He embraces Plato's view that music conspiracy here." This is cowardice, at the very least: a refus­ and character are intimately linked. "A man raised on harmo­ al to face the very facts he has mars aIled. nious music," he paraphrases Plato, "has a better chance of Kilpatrick's idea of a positive Iternative also falls far developing a harmonious soul." The same is true of stories, short of the Platonic ideal he clai s to admire. The book poetry, painting, and craft. By being surrounded with nobili­ never mentions the greatest living s okesman for that ideal, ty, grace, and beauty, says Kilpatrick, "the child can come American thinker Lyndon H. LaR uche, Jr. , who was at­ to love justice and wisdom long before he can grasp these tacked by the Communist Party 25 ears ago for defending notions in their abstract form." And yet, "in our society, we New York City teachers against the ' political correctness" of

seem to have managed to create an erotic attachment to all that era; who has identifiedthe evil 0 the National Education the wrong things ....Inst ead of a passionate attachment Assocation, for introducing and pr oting affective educa­ to what is good, noble, and just, youth develop passionate tion models in the schools; and wh has repeatedly mapped attachments to their own needs, wants, and feelings." out proposals for restoring classical urriculum to the schools (see EIR Vol. 19, No. 34, Aug. 28, 992). To praise, or even Knowing the enemy discuss LaRouche's curriculum wo Id bring down the full Kilpatrick's book is an eye-opener for parents who are wrath of the liberal education establ shment. But what could wondering whatever happened to the eager, inquisitive be more educational?

EIR February 5, 1993 Reviews 51 Classicalson ghooks open patthto Mozart,Me ndelssohn, Italiarlso ngs by Nora Hamerman

Alfred book provides the firstv I rsions widely available to the music-loving public which all w one to recapture the actual 26 Italian Songs andArias artistry of these beautiful, but ften under-estimated works. edited by John Glenn Paton During 1992, Mr. Paton llowed up with 12 Songs by Alfred Publishing Co. , Van Nuys , Calif. , 1991 Mozart and 24 Songs by Felix endelssohn and Fanny M en­ pages, paperbound, (medium-high, 152 $7.95 delssohn Hensel. medium-low) These "Vocal Masterwor " editions, each available in two keys, are well produced,* �asily readable scores, and in a tradition Alfred has already tablished in its piano scores, they distinguish between Urt� xt (exactly what was written 24 Songs by Mendelssohn by the composer, as it is dete ined from autograph manu­ edited by John Glenn Paton scripts or the most reliable earl Printed versions) and editori­ AlfredPu blishing Co. , Van Nuys , Calif. , 1992 al suggestions, by printing th latter in a light gray type (or 96 pages, paperbound, $9.95 (high , medium) in the case of suggested orna ents, in smaller notes). And they are all in a modest price rl nge under $10. By now, the Paton edition� span what academic musicol­ ogists call the "baroque," the "�lassical ," and the "romantic" eras in music, as these categories are nonsensically but com­ 12 Songs by Mozart monly applied to refer to fiX periods in time. In reality, edited by John Glenn Paton most of the music in all thre !Paton books falls within the Alfred Publishing Co. , Van Nuys , Calif. , 1992 scope of the classical approac to art-that is, it adheres to 72 pages, paperbound, $8.95 (high, medium) notions of proportion and bea,ty which we trace all the way back to fifthce ntury B.C. Ath�ns. I Over the past two years, John Glenn Paton, a veteran singing The Italian songs : teacher who is now professor emeritus of the University of Since I have reviewed the �6 Italian Songs in other loca­ Californiaat Berkeley, has brought out three new editions of tions, sufficeit to quickly indi6ate here Paton's accomplish­ the classic vocal repertoire through the Alfred music publish­ ment. First he identified som� of the well-known "ancient ing company. airs," like "Se tu m'ami, se �ospiri," as mid- to late-19th­ In 1991 this reviewer jumped for joy at seeing the firstof century forgeries of the 17th �entury style, while leaving a these, 26 Italian Songs and Arias: An Authoritative Edition question mark over the ugly ,, me raggio del sol," attributed Based on Authentic Sources. The reason was that for years I without evidence to Antonio C Idara, a prolificoperatic com­ had been attempting, without success, to track down the poser of the early 18th centu . Second, he provided a page original keys and original accompaniments to the popularly of text for each song which gi[ s its context in the opera from available versions of the 17th- and 18th-century Italian songs which it was taken, a Phone c guide to pronunciation for and arias that are so oftentaught to beginning voice students English-speakers, literal wo �d-for-word translations, and in versions that were shellacked with dubious dynamic and background information on e composer and the manu­ tempo markings and romantic, heavy piano accompaniments scripts which were consulted. l which clearly had nothing to do with the style desired by In each case he lists the orj.ginal key, although oddly, he composers of the era of Scarlatti and Vivaldi. chose not always to print the ece in that key. In a couple of Mr. Paton, it turned out, had spent more than 15 years cases, his choice of a key one Il lf-s tep lower than the original researching in libraries all over Europe to produce his edition, seems to reflect Paton's aw� ness of the fact that standard and despite its flaws, some of which I will mention below, the pitch in the 18th century was nearly a half-step lower than I 52 Reviews EIR February 5, 1993 today. In others, the decision seems more arbitrary. Indeed, all of Paton's new editions beg the question of the urgency of correcting modern trends in tuning. Starting in 1988, the Schiller Institute has campaigned internationally to restore the tuning fork to middle C at 256 Hz (yielding a concert A no higher than 432 Hz, slightly but significantly lower than the arbitrary modern pitch of A=440). This initia­ tive, which was prompted by Lyndon LaRouche on the basis of restoring the lost unity between physical science and art , won the support of an impressive plurality of the world's top professional singers, and even reached the point of having a bill introduced into the Italian Parliament, modeled on an analogous initiative by Giuseppe Verdi in 1884. Those of us who have tuned our keyboard instruments to that classical pitch, will probably stick to the old Schirmer edition for Caldara's "Alma del core," rather than Paton's transposition to A-flat (in his "medium high" book). Also, the familiar version, in this case, contains the original 16- measure instrumental introduction, which Paton unaccount­ ably omits. On the other hand, it is very valuable to learn that in the original opera, La Costanza in Arnor Vince L'!n­ ganno of 1711, the aria was repeated with different text by Fanny Mendelssohn at about /6, in a by her fu ture an alto, in the key of 0 major, which is the key that Paton husband, Wilhelm Hensel, who Painter to the King does use in his "medium low" book. of Prussia. Her brother Felix was a amateur artist; one of his watercolors is on the cover of "24 Some of my acquaintances have also complained that the Paton book's piano accompaniments are infuriatingly "un­ pianistic." No doubt, many ofthem can be improved; the most the necessary skills, you can the accompaniment to wildly unplayable for amateur pianists is the one for "0 del suit your own taste and the of the occasion (meaning mio dolce ardor" by Gliick, which attempts to reproduce very the instrument you are playing, the of voice of the singer, . rapid violin playing on the keyboard, and can't be brought off and the kind of obbligato that may also be by most of us. I would say in Paton's defense that orchestral playing). reductions are always a bugaboo, and that the "pianistic" ac­ The greatest genius among the rr"''Ylnncp companiments invented in the 19th century and printed in Paton's 26!talian Songs is Ales many familiar editions of these songs, are profoundly alien to the founding spirit of the Naples of composition, to the nature of the music itself. Perhaps one of the most legiti­ which all of European music owes overwhelming debt. In mate laments for pianists in the Alfred editions, is that they the familiar edition of his song, cessate di piagarmi ," the . achieve a very readable page at the expense of space, and that 19th-century romantic editor actually threw Scarlat­ there are far too many page-turns as a result! ti's beautiful bass line out the , and wrote his own In the case of the Italian songs, the reason there can be apparent author of the different accompaniments at all, is that most of these compos­ forgery "Se tu m'ami," which he ·bed to Pergolesi, an- ers did not write out a full keyboard score, unlike their later other genius of 18th-century vocal musk.) Paton counterparts. They were either writing for a small orchestral rightly points out that the change rrp,"prcpc the symbolism" ensemble, or in most cases, wrote only the vocal melody and intended by Scarlatti, who played the repeated tones of a figured or unfigured bass line. This means that the composer the melody against an emotionally less bass line . I would left it to the keyboard performer (in the earlier pieces we are call such a change immoral. talking about lutes, harpischords, clavichords, and organs; Other arbitrary, romanticist �"l�.. t;�� corrected by Paton in the later ones, fortepianos, the "singing" ancestor to our include his restoration of the scansion of the poetic modernpianos) to fill in appropriate harmonies, which he of­ text, in which composers of the I often placed a weak ten indicated by numbers (hence, "figllredbass "). In modern syllable on a quick note slurred a longer note, and also editions, an editor almost always fillsthese in ("realizes" the frequently would stretch one syl Ie over a long melisma bass line), because pianists are no longer taught figured bass with many notes. The I editors often flattened as a standard part of their training (see box, p. 54). out the songs by replacing these ions and melismas The redeeming virtue of Paton's editions in this regard is and fitting the words to the notes a way that suited their that the bass lines he gives are the real ones, and if you have jaded modern ears. Just try the s I ike lilt of Paton's

EIR February 5, 1993 Reviews 53 restored edition of the famous "Per la gloria" (also, in the correct original key!), and you will never want to go back to the ironed-out rhythms of the familiar version. Handel's way tPlearn figured bass Mozart Being an art historian by training, I was delighted by the cover of the 12 Mozart Songs, a painting of Vienna by BernardoBellotto , a Venetian view-painter, which was done I Continuo Playing AC Ording to Handel: around 1760, shortly before the Mozart family firstcame to His Figured Bass Exe cises Vienna. This picture, showing the cross-fertilization of Ital­ with a commentaryby avid Ledbetter ian and German culture that inspired Mozart, seemed to cap­ Clarendon Press, Oxfor� ,U.K., 1990 without preciosity ture the kind of authenticity which Paton 106 pages, hardbound, 1)44.95; is seeking in the Alfred editions. There are fewer revelations paperbound, $24.95 I here, and one gains little in the way of "corrections" relative to , say, the familiar Peters edition ofthe Mozart lieder scores. But the big plus is the little essays that precede each piece. "Nobody who has acquired the ability to accompany ba­ The first number in the book gave your reviewer a wel­ roque music from a figured �ass will be satisfiedto return come jolt. "Ridente la calma" is an Italian da capo aria (an air to using written-out realizatibns, " remarks David Ledbet­ in the a-b-a form) which had always puzzled me-it simply ter in his introduction to thi� book. He adds, "The main did not fitinto my notion of Mozart at any point in his develop­ advantage is in fact one of t�e reasons why the system of ment. Not being a Mozart scholar, this misgiving remained an bass figuringwas originally lievised-itallows flexibility unarticulated "hunch," but I had avoided teaching or singing the piece because it seemed so oddly un-Mozartean, and also, because the text does not fitthe notes very well. According to Paton, the opening theme is not by Mozart at all, but is rather Mendelssohn his adaption to a different text, of an aria for soprano and Felix Mendelssohn's Opus and 9, published respective­ orchestra by his good friend, the Czech composer J osefMysli­ ly in 1827 and 1830, each cont1, ined 12 songs, but the Paton vecek. What is by Mozart, other than the adaptation to piano edition is the first to rectify art injustice done to his gifted and the new words, is the middle section, which is audibly the older sister Fanny. She was t�e actual composer of three most akin to Mozart's operatic music. songs in each set. Born into a �ealthy family with a leading In addition, we learn that the strophic song "Die Zufried­ social position in Berlin, FannyiMendelssohn had compliant­ enheit" was originally set to be accompanied by mandolin ly accepted her family's decisibn not to publicize her great before Mozart adapted it for piano, that the poem had been talent. i published firstwith music by Neefe (Beethoven's first teach­ Fanny (1805-47) and Felix � 1809-47) were grandchildren er) , and that there is an unfinished sketch for a setting by of the philosopher Moses Me�delssohn. As described by Beethoven himself. Paton also comments, refreshingly, that Paton, "Rising from complete �overty, [Moses] was able, as the optimism of the poem, written in 1776, expressed the a silk merchant to support his iwife and six children and to spirit of the times as seen in the events of Philadelphia that entertain the frequent visitors iwho sought him out for his year. We learnthat the "pp" marking at the end of the sublime wisdom. Moses was the firstJew who wrote books in German "Abendempfindung" is the only pianissimo Mozart ever and the firstGerman who translated the first five books of the wrote in a song score. In another celebrated Mozart song, Bible directly from Hebrew. I� a time when most Jews were "Das Veilchen," Paton notes that we cannot know whether not accorded civil rights or ¢itizenship, Moses' intellect Mozart himself intended the three tempo changes that are brought him universal respec�. He was often heralded by marked in the firstprinted edition, and also makes the surpris­ those who supported full civil nghts for the Jewish popula­ ing assertion that Mozart may not have known that the poem tion." Felix's mother, Lea Soldmon Mendelssohn, had stud­ was by Goethe, since one of the two anthologies in which it ied music with a pupil of J.S. iBach, and numerous unpub­ was published, did not list the author's name. lished Bach scores were handed down in the family. She gave In the preface, Paton reports on the guidance for interpre­ the children their firstpiano ldsons. Through Karl ZeIter, a tation of the ornaments called appoggiaturas which is given friend of Goethe, the two youn�sters learnedto write strophic in a violin method book written by Mozart's father Leopold songs (with the same music re�ated for each stanza of text). in 1757. Paton shows how these ornamentswould be written, When Felix was 12 years �ld, he was taken by ZeIter to and on a staff below, how they should be played. Unfortu­ Weimar, where he played B.ch fugues for the old poet nately the second example is reversed, a proofreader's lapse Goethe. In 1822, during a family visit, Goethe indicated his which should get fixedin future printings. approval of Fanny Mendelsso"n's songs to his poems. She

54 Reviews EIR February 5, 1993 in the choice of accompanying instrument, and the same way through exercises in fugue. !-landers exercises are part can be used for organ, harpsichord, lute, or the oboe, interspersed with brief commentarits by Ledbetter which each of which has its own accompaniment style. The tex­ explain the purpose of each exercise. Since the book was ture and tessitura of the accompaniment can also be adjust­ produced in England, some of the terminology takes a bit ed to suit the instrument accompanied. In the many ba­ of getting used to, for example the word crotchets for what roque sonatas which allow alternativein strumentation the are usually called quarter-noteson tijis side ofthe Atlantic. accompaniment will not be the same for the quiet flute or At the back of the book there are nearly 40 pages of recorder as it is for the more extrovert oboe or violin." By specimen realizations of the exercises. extension, one might assume that in the 1 7th- and 18th­ In Paton's 26 Italian Songs andiArias, the bass line is century Italian songs and arias, a different accompaniment always the original bass line of the composer, whereas the would be used for a light soprano as opposed to a dramatic other notes are the editor's realization. Quite a few of voice, for example. these arias are available in facsimile editions of the origi­ This book reproduces the exercises which George nals now-some of which are pa.Jttially reproduced, as Frederick Handel devised between 1724 and the mid- illustrations, in the Paton volume. If one takes the trouble 1730s, when he was harpsichord teacher to the Daughters to learn bass figuring as taught by liIandel, then it will be of King George II of England-Princesses Anne, Caro­ possible to make one's own accompaniments to the Italian line, Amelia, and Louisa. Princess Anne was a lifelong songs, possibly by the expedient of copying out the bass friend of the composer and a gifted musician, and he took line and vocal line onto a separate score. It's all good the trouble to devise a comprehensive course for her. This exercise for developing a capabililty for the lost art of course takes you from simple root-position triads all the classical composition.-Nora Hamerman

was then just 17. One of these, the duet "Suleika und Hatem," while Albert and Victoria sang. Felix Mendelssohn found a is published in Opus 8; interestingly, Felix Mendelssohn never copy of his Opus 8 songs, and to his embarrassment, the dared publish any of his settings of Goethe until after the poet queen chose "Italien," a setting o( a poem by Grillparzer. had died. While the Mendelssohn songs are not at the level of When the queen praised the song, �endelssohn had to admit the greatest German lieder, they are worthy of being sung much that his sister had composed it. Later he wrote to his mother more than they are, and they played a very important role in that the queen had the best "long h�h G" he had ever heard his development as a composer, along with the influenceof J. S. from an amateur. Anglophiles and njlOnarchists should reflect Bach. As Paton points out, they were also very important as on the following process of degeneration: In the 16th century, the jumping-off point for Robert Schumann's lieder. A good English royals (Henry VIII and Elizabeth I) composed poly­ example of the importance of vocal music for Felix Mendels­ phonic music; in the 18th, they learnedfigured bass accompa­ sohn's instrumental composing is Op. 9, No. 1, "Frage" niment (the daughters of George II); even in the 19th, they ("Question"). The striking phrase on the three opening words, mastered bel canto singing. Whereas today .. "1st es wahr?" ("Is it true?") was used by him several months later as the basis of his A major stringquartet. One is reminded The issue of keys of Beethoven's use of the question, "Muss es sein?" ("Must it The Paton Italian songs come in "medium high" and be?") as the theme for a movement in one of his late string "medium low" keys, pedagogical cajtegorieswhich have little quartets, a theme whose answer, "Es muss sein!" ("It must to do with real tessituras of real singers. As long as A=440 be!"), he also wrote as a canon. Although Felix and Fanny and even higher pitches prevail, and musicians passively Mendelssohn were apparentlyunfamiliar with Schubert'ssongs accept them, it is hard to argue with these sometimes capri­ when they wrote Op. 8 and 9, Felix was keenly aware ofthe cious transpositions. In the Mozart book, the "high" book compositional methodof Beethoven. carries all pieces in the original keY$, while in the "medium" Paton comments that in Opus 8, Fanny Mendelssohn's book they are transposed down usuillly by a major or minor songs had an expressiveness that Felix's lacked, and that he third, with the exception of two whi¢h are only brought down took the leap to her level only in Opus 9. If this is right, one whole-step, apparently in the <,tesire-mistaken, in my then the "historical injustice" being rectified here goes well view--of avoiding the extremes in range. From the stand­ beyond the issue of putting Fanny's name on some songs. point of respecting the composer's intentions of vocal register One anecdote recounted in the book underscores Fanny as an important part of his musica� ideas, if a song written Mendelssohn's achievement. During a visit to Britain's for a high voice (soprano or tenor) has a "low" quality, it Queen Victoria and her German consort, Prince Albert, in should have a symmetrically low quality for the low voice 1842, Mendelssohn played the organ at Buckingham Palace (contralto or bass), should it not? These transpositions are

EIR February 5, 1993 Reviews 55 very similar to those in the familiar Peters edition called register. In the higher A = 440 tuning, this note will be kicked "low," but it seems that Paton, an experienced vocal peda­ into the fourth, register-like appendage called the "super­ gogue, does not think there are many truly "low" voices, high" or "whistle" register, a very differentqual ity of voice. especially among student singers. This register appears rarely in lieder, and was not intended by The Mendelssohn book also comes in "high" and "medi­ Mendelssohn here . Unfortunately-this is a small editorial um," and here, in a departure from common music-publish­ lapse-the same comment about singing the piece in E-flat ing practice, in which "high" often simply means "original is reprinted verbatim in the "medium" version of the songs, keys," Paton transposes both ways: Two songs in the "high" where it does not make sense, since here, the song is printed book are transposed upward, because the original settings in C major, and the long high note is a G. Although high G appear to be for lower voices. This only works, of course, if is a very high note for a "medium" mezzo-soprano or baritone you assume that the set is merely a collection of songs, and voice, especially in the wrong, modem A=440 tuning, it not a cycle meant to be sung all together. Paton seems ambiv­ does not imply any shiftinto a different register . .1 alent about this. What recommends the "Vocal Masterworks" series over­ There are several references in all of Paton's editions to all, is that Paton operates from Ithe assumption that singers the fact that the modem A =440 pitch does not correspond to and singing students are intellig¢nt and that if they know the the tuning used by the Italian baroque composers or Mozart truth about a song, such as what key it was in, what the or Mendelssohn. In Mendelssohn's Opus 8, No. 11, "1m character in the opera was doing� the context in which it was Griinen," a piece in E major, Paton comments on p. 48, "If written, and so forth, they willi sing it better. This accords the vocal tessitura seems too high in the original key, it is well with the fundamental prillciple of bel canto singing, partly because pianos are tuned higher now than in Felix's which is that we sing with our heads-both'in the technical time. If the song is performed in E-flat [a half-tone lower] , sense of "placing" the tone in .he head, and in the deeper the result will be close to Felix's expectations." Indeed, the sense, that the brain is the most important organ used for score provides for a high B-natural, which, as you can dis­ making music of any kind. As loog as we continue to use our cover by consulting the Schiller Institute's Manual on the heads (which includes taking a critical view of Paton's or his Rudiments of Tuning and Registration (Washington, D.C.: collaborators' editing suggestions), these are the best editions · 1992) is the very top note of a soprano's (or tenor's) third around, for most of these pieces!

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Singing and any words. EMI's new release of Den­ effect, the first three are magnificent. nis Brain with his father Aubrey is a "Rarities," ano�r Callas release on the French horn fineintroduc tion, but also hear Dennis EMI (CDC 544�7), also gives a us "Mozart, " Dennis and Aubrey Brain's mature "Mozart HornConcer­ chance to hear ! her since Mozart, Brain, French horn, EMf CDH tos" on EMI CDH 63013. Beethoven, and other roles she rarely "Five Heroines," Maria Callas,64198 performed. soprano, EMf CMS 64418 (5 CDs) Bel canto repertoire After the usualhunt through a week's The importance of Maria Callas (1923-77) is the most fa­ worth ofwort hless new classical CDs, elevating the voice I was delighted to find something to mous singer after Caruso, and despite recommend: EMI Classics' two new what you've heard, a much greater art­ It must be said, however, as these CD recordings made 40 years ago by ist. Unlike today's classical singers, discs also show, that Callas was one Dennis Brain and Maria Callas. most of whom just sing the notes, Cal­ of the firstvictims of what today is the French hornist Dennis Brain las sang the idea between the notes. rule: bad 2Oth-ceptury vocal training. (1921-1957) will be music to the ears Callas moreover had the shocking She was never taught the technology of those weary of the presidential sax­ idea that the late 19th century Verismo of elevating the OiCe in the head, as ophone, an instrument which, no mat­ school, which had taken over the stage it was done in be� canto fromthe high ter how skillfully played, is purely by her debut, was not all there was to 16th through 1. centuries. "As a ugly. Brain's ability to make his art, no matter what the morons at the dramatist she was unmatched," an old French horn sing Mozart reminds us New York Times said. Verismo (ve­ Italian school teacher once told me, why men used to build instruments, rism, or realism) was the predecessor "but when she sings, especially in the which we seem to have forgotten: to of today' s "rap." It rejected the idea higher registers, if you listen carefully make music more beautiful. that music should elevate the soul, and you will hear that! it is just a pretty little In Mozart and Beethoven's day, sought to deliberately "get ugly," to scream. Her voice is in the throat." the "natural horn," which played at represent "the ugliness of real life," Something closer to original bel C=256 (A =430), was even more dif­ withadultery and murder galore. canto is heard on the 1920s recordings ficult than the modern horn. In addi­ Callas went on a campaign in the of Amelita GalIi�Curci and Tito Schi­ tion to the cumbersome mouthpiece, 1950s to rescue the lyrical scores of pa, for example" Comparison of Cal­ long coiled pipe, and the instability of the 1810-40 bel canto operas by Don­ las's "mad scene" from Lucia di Lam­ tone production, Mozart's horn had izetti, Bellini, Rossini, and Verdi. mermoor with tltat of Galli-Curci no valves and was even longer-piped. She recognized the deep humanity in makes this cleat. The gargly throat To play these horns, players had the bel canto works, which had been "wobble" which made an early end to to shape the tone like a singer, in the thrown into disuse as superficial and Callas's career is painful, heard next mind, with little dependence upon the "too idealistic" to be "relevant" or po­ to Galli-Curci' s: effortless, floating instrument-to sing through the in­ litically correct. In performance, Cal­ head tone. strument. Instrumentalists and singers las was willing to go the extra emo­ Callas could never quite overcome alike were trained to sing high bel can­ tional mile and bring out the this obstacle. Men the voice catches to for many years in childhood. That profundity of this music poeticallyfor in the throat, thereare certain forms of is, unlike the President, they played the audience. "long line" which cannot be executed because they could sing; not because EMI's "Five Heroines" contains musically, no matter. how hard the theycou ld neither sing nor speak. an hour each of Callas' best three bel mind tries. Neither was Brain a technical mar­ canto roles, a 1954 Bellini Norma, a Purists need �ot be smug, howev­ vel replaceable by synthesizer. His 1954 Donizetti Lucia di Lammer­ er, because whatever her limitations, phrasing of a musical line makes his moor, and a 1955 Verdi La Traviata, Callas, unlike most audiences today, some of the best recordings of Mozart with Puccini's Madame Butterfly and could at least tell beautiful from ugly. ever done, period. He sounds like a Tosca . While the last two are Verismo At least she knew what artis . Her dra­ great singer with a deep comprehen­ items, in which not only knives, but matic interpretations should be heard

sion of the poetry-but there aren't forks no less, are used to murderous and learnt from. i

EIR February 5, 1993 Reviews 57 �ITillNati onal

Will therebe justice under Bill Clinton?

by Nancy Spannaus

. January 27 , 1993 was the fourth anniversary of the jailing of overblown style, the paper pu� its spotlight on some of the prominent American statesman Lyndon LaRouche, a man most egregious abuses of powerby the Departmentof Justice. known internationally to have been the political prisoner of Spotlighting particularly the rol¢s of former Attorney General a vindictive President George Bush. Over 150 people demon­ Richard Thornburgh and form�r Assistant Attorney General strated near the White House, and scores more held symbolic Robert Mueller, the article dissrxted case after case of high­ candlelight vigils in cities around the United States, Europe, handed tactics, inclUding: 1) �vernment failure to disclose and Ibero-America in order to demand: President Clinton: evidence favorable to a sus�; 2) government interference Restore Justice, Free LaRouche. between a defendant and a clie.. t; 3) government intimidation While Bush has been kicked out of office, the innocent of witnesses; and 4) blitzkrieg indictments, intended to force 70-year-old LaRouche remains in the Rochester, Minnesota plea-bargains or otherwise overwhelm the target. Federal Medical Center. What are the prospects for the in­ If anything, the review vastly understated the politiciza­ coming Clinton administration to reverse this injustice? The tion and aggrandizement of the! Justice Department. Starting answer to this question will definewhether the United States with Thornburgh's tenure there in the 1970s, the department returns to being a constitutional democratic republic, or had shifted heavily into literaliy organizing crime, through whether it is consolidated as a fascist state. setting up "sting" operations; against political targets in It is in this light that one should view the battle over the unions and government,amon � other places. The philosophy attorneygeneral 's position in the Clinton administration, and was increasingly blatant: Migh( makes right. Combined with the other fights which are being waged in the Department of the decisions of the U. S. Supretne Courtin favor of prosecu­ Justice. The DOJ is leaderless and is in total disarray. The torial power, and against the riahts of the defendant, the shift old, corrupt Republican "dirty tricks" apparatus has been has been toward an all-out police state. destabilized, but much of it is still in place. There is a vacu­ Particularly striking to th()se following these matters, um, and a bitter fightin which no "good guys" have emerged. however, was that the article did not include the most cele­ brated political case of the BjJsh Justice Department-the The appearance of justice LaRouche case. All of the abuses which the series reviewed, The fightover the shape of the Justice Department began and then some, had been carri¢d out in the LaRouche case, in the finalmonths of the Bush administration, when exposes which has become a subject of human rights investigations of the coverups in various banking scandals began to hit the in various international fora. Tpe Washington Post, a major press. All of a sudden, the FBI was attacking the CIA, the political enemy of LaRouche,; apparently wants "reform," DOJ was contradicting the FBI, and everyone who had been but not too much. in a position of power during the Reagan-Bush years started scrambling to protect himself. The Baird case Then, on Jan. 3, the Washington Post began a six-part Into this political environment walked President Clin­ series under the title "The Appearance of Justice." In its own ton's nominee for attorney gen¢ral, Zoe Baird.

58 National EIR February 5, 1993 The issue with Baird, as LaRouche himself has stressed, allowing his wife to ride in an official"eh icle; taking personal had little or nothing to do with her having hired "illegal trips at government expense (by spQDsoring some govern­ aliens" to do housework. Rather, that scandal was played up ment business in the same location); I and having a security in the press with the aid of forces in the Reagan-Bush Justice fence built around his residence. Department who wanted to prevent her from getting the job. The OPR has determined that the$e are serious breaches Given the populist environment in the United States, it of ethics. What that means is that Pr�sident Clinton can use worked like a charm. them as "cause" for removing Sess�ons, if he so wishes. Why did the "old boys" in the DOJ want to prevent (Sessions had announced prior to the eiection that he intended Baird's accession to power? It's not fully clear, of course, but to remain in his post as FBI director until his term expired in there is some indication from the discussion at the committee 1997.) i hearings on the nomination. For example, in her back and Why would the FBI and DOJ b�reaucracy want to get forth with Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S . C.), the quintessential rid of Sessions? Sessions has prided: himself upon being a representative of Confederate police-state justice, Baird "reformer" of the FBI, particularlyin �ace relations. As such, balked on a number of points of the Reagan-Bush-Rehnquist he has raised the hackles of many in) the bureau, including criminal justice agenda. She testifiedthat she was in favor of FBI Deputy Director Floyd Clarke an� Hooverite John Otto. the exclusionary rule, and that she wanted to ensure that He may also be seen as an ally by th� incoming administra­ defendants charged with capital crimes got adequate counsel tion, which wants to see "reform," a� least insofar as it will at any early stage. She stressed that the emphasis should be serve their political interests. ; on crime prevention rather than just locking people up as it The "old-boy" apparatus wants tq end the reign of "out­ had been under the Reagan and Bush administrations. Al­ siders" that has run the FBI since J. �gar Hoover's death in though Baird declared her support for the federal death penal­ 1972. One name being floatedfor Se�sions's replacement is ty and the like, her outlook was clearly disturbing to the likes that of William Lee Colwell. Colwellj now a professor at the of Thunilond. University of Arkansas, spent 25 ye*"sin-the FBI, and is a EIR of be In an interview given on Jan. 27 j LaRouche put it personal friend Clinton. He see� 'to the favorite of this way: "So these fellows wanted to get Baird. Why? I those who wantto go back to the "g old days." . don't think itwas because of Baird herself, but rather because o¥ she represented, as the discussion before the congressional The basis forjustice committee indicated, an attempt to clean up and reform the As- is becoming increasingly eVi i ent to thinking people Justice Department system, along the lines indicated in the around the world, there is no way tqat4 justice could be re­ six-part series recently run in the Washington Post." formed in the United States if the govetnment's unjust impris­ Clinton was caught off-guard, as reflectedin the fact that onment of LaRouche and his associat�s is not reversed. Cos­ he has not yet offered a new nominee for attorney general. metic changes, or politically motiv,ted adjustments as to The department is now being run by Webster L. Hubbell, a who gets targeted, might be made, �t that would not alter law partner from Hillary Clinton's law firm who has moved the consolidation of fascist irrational* law. into the attorney general's office, even though officially the Many in the Democratic Party appfiratusnow taking pow­ man in charge is Stuart Gerson, an assistant attorney general er were intimately involved in the rai�roading of LaRouche, held over from the Bush administration. of course. They worked with sections �fthe Bush and Reagan administrations, the Anti-Defamation! League , and state gov­ The Sessions fight ernments to try to eliminate a move�ent which threatened The other major indication of the fight over the shape of their political corruption. i the justice system under the Clinton administration is evident Thus, while it seems that Preside" Clinton does not have in the fightbetween FBI Director William Sessions and the a personal animus against LaRouche, as Bush did, there is Department of Justice bureaucracy. It is particularly telling no visible move within his circle to jreverse the LaRouche that Sessions has been publicly denounced by Oliver "Buck" convicti�n. Only �assive political Pfessure could convin�e Revell, a collaborator with Oliver North in the Iran-Contra the PreSident that It were more costlr to keep LaRouche In operation, a personal enemy of LaRouche, and a former top prison, than to admit the governmenfs breaches of law and official in the FBI. let him out. i The public attacks on Sessions emerged at the time that As LaRouche said on Jan. 27: " here is nothing left of the FBI, DOJ, and CIA went to war with each other over the the case, in terms of evidence. Th�t problem is, that the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) scandal (pre-war aid to federal courts in the Fourth Circuit � doing everything to Iraq). Bush Attorney General Barr's last act in officewas to try to jam up and to refuse to face tij.e simple fact, that the release the report of an Office of Professional Responsibility whole set of charges against me and $y associates, was now (OPR) investigation of Sessions , which had turnedup numer­ proven to be, and to have been, notlting but a pack of lies ous "improprieties." These included such infractions as and perjury. " !

EIR February 5, 1993 National 59 cluded a sworn statement from the actual murderer's trial attorney, who is now a judge� and an eyewitness's sworn High court approves statement, among other evidedce-are the normal types of proof a defendant would be ab�e to offer. What proof would execution of innocent be good enough to get a hearing� Perhaps the situation Justice Kennedy hypothesized at the <1>ct. 7, 1992 argument: If the defendant had a videotape which showed another person by Anita Gallagher committing the murder! Justice Blackmun, with Stevens and Souter concurring, Any nation which accepts the fiction that the United States exposes how the Rehnquist majority has connived to destroy is the world's leading defender of human rights after the protections to those with color�le claims of innocence, call­ U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the case of Leonel Torres ing the majority's decision "even more perverse, when view­ Herrera, should check whether its leaders' brains have been ed in the light of this court's recent habeas jurisprudence." fried. For on Jan. 25, the highest court ruled that innocent Blackmun recounts how, with a trio ofdecisions in 1986, the persons who have been convicted of murder may be executed court shifted the standard of review away from whether a without violating the U.S. Constitution. defendant's constitutional rig�ts were violated, to whether Justice Harry Blackmun, joined by Justices John Paul he was guilty or innocent. Havibg made a showing of "actual Stevens and David Souter, blasted the Rehnquist majority's innocence" necessary for succqssive habeas review, the Re­ reasoning as "perverse." In the final portion of his dissent, hnquist majority now turns arclmnd and says that executing unjoined by any other justice, Blackmun warned: "The exe­ an innocent man is not a constitutional violation, but instead cution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes a "truly persuasive" showing df innocence has now become perilously close to simple murder." merely the necessary threshold from which a constitutional The Supreme Court's ruling was authored by Chief Jus­ violation must be raised. tice William Rehnquist, who supports the Constitution of "The only principle that w�uld appear to reconcile these the Confederacy, not that of the U.S. Founding Fathers. two positions is the principle Ithat habeas relief should be Rehnquist, and his "majority," have severed "law" from the denied wherever possible," Bhkkmun comments acidly. principles of justice and equity, which have their basis in The most vicious aspect of the majority decision, per­ what the Declaration of Independence calls "the law of Na­ haps, is its hype of executive dlemency, and claim that this ture and Nature's God." The majority's reasoning is like that is the proper avenue of relief f�r Herrera. Across the United of Shakespeare's villain Shylock in The Merchant of Venice: States, Lilliputians win office by "tough on crime" cam­ "The pound of flesh.. ..'Tis mine and I will have it. If you paigns that manipulate the ragel of the voters. Clemency, "an deny me, fie upon your law." Like Shylock, the Rehnquist act of grace," has become virtujuly extinct. The Texas Board majority uses "case law" to violate justice. of Pardons and Parole, for exaniple, to which the courtdirect­ The practical effect of the court's ruling is to allow U . S. ed Herrera, has never grante� a commutation in a capital Circuit Courts of Appeal to continue to send to their deaths case-except to block a court-�rdered new trial. capital defendants who have evidence (a "colorable claim") "If the exercise of a legal ri�ht turns on 'an act of grace, ' of innocence. then we no longer live under ai governmentof laws," warns Blackmun. When will the Aroerican people realize where Rehnquist's 'figleaf' their support of elected officials who demand "an end to Of course, the 6-3 majority, and two justices (Sandra Day appeals" has gotten them? I O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy) in a separate concurrence, claimed that the court was not ruling that an innocent man could be executed without violating the Constitution. Re­ Documentation hnquist cleverly inserted the sentence in the majority's opin­ ion: "We may assume, for the sake of argument in deciding this case, that in a capital case a truly persuasive demonstra­ 1 tion of 'actual innocence' made after trial would render the Excerpts from the case execution of a defendant unconstitutional." Justices Kennedy and O'Connor explicitly state that exe­ of 'Herrera v. C,ollins' cuting an innocent person would be unconstitutional, but maintain that Herrera's proofs of innocence are simply not Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, on conscience good enough. However, none of the majority's opinions and law: "There is no basis �n text, tradition, or even in makes any attempt to set a standard for what a "truly persua­ contemporary practice (if thatl were enough) for finding in sive" demonstration would be. Herrera's proofs-which in- the Constitution a right to deniand judicial consideration of

60 National EIR February 5, 1993 newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward afterconviction . In saying that such a right exists , the dissent­ ers apply nothing but their personal opinions to invalidate rules of more than two-thirds of the States, and a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure for which this Court iself is Clinton expands death responsible. If the system that has been in place for 200 years (and remains widely approved) 'shocks' the dissenters' penaltyfo r unborn consciences (citing dissenters' opinion), perhaps they should by Wa rren A.J. Hamerman doubt the calibration of their consciences, or, better still, the � usefulness of 'conscience-shocking' as a legal test." Why Justices Scalia and Thomas concurred with Re­ In his first act in office, on the 20th �niversary of the Su­ hnquist's op inion, despite its arguendo assumption that inno­ preme Court's anti-life ruling, Presiqent Bill Clinton kept cence would bar execution: "[I] can understand, or at least one campaign promise: With the stroli:e of a pen he ordered am accustomed to, the reluctance of the present Court to one of the most sweeping packages of pro-abortion measures admit publicly that Our Perfect Constitution lets stand any in history. injustice, much less the execution of an innocent man .... One year ago, then-GovernorCl intpn, as EIR readers will With any luck, we shall avoid ever having to face this embar­ recall, rushed home from campaigning in New Hampshire in rassing question again, since it is improbable that evidence order to oversee the execution of a lobotomized prisoner in of innocence as convincing as today' s opinion requires would Arkansas. He has now begun his prt$idency by extending fail to produce an executive pardon." the application of the death penalty to the unborn. Justice HarryBlack mun' s dissent, alone: "I have voiced The day after Clinton's actions, the Vatican responded disappointment over this Court's obvious eagerness to do in an unprecedentedly swift and shat1P statement to a new away with any restriction on the States' power to execute President's firstactio ns. An editorial i� the Vatican newspa­ whomever and however they please (citing case of Roger per L'Osservatore Romano on Jan. 23 commented: "Be­ Coleman of Virginia, 1991). I have also expressed doubts lieving that he is keeping faith with ele4:toralprom ises, Presi­ about whether, in the absence of such restrictions, capital dent Bill Clinton has already chan�ed the rules of his punishment remains constitutional at all. ...Of one thing, predecessors . . . that favored the rig�t to life of the unborn however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate child. Those who were hoping that Clijnton's firstacts would safeguards [the reason capital punishment was temporarily promote a 'renewal' involving first of all the protection of declared unconstitutional in 1972-ed.] is unacceptable, so human rights have had a big disappointment. With the recent too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove measures, the declared 'renewal' has �mbarked on the paths that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show of death and violence against innocent beings. This is not that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder. " progress for the United States, nor for humanity, which, Justices Blackmun, Stevens, and Souter, on the Eighth once again, is forced to accept the humiliating defeat of Amendment, which prohibits "cruel and unusual" punish­ life. 'Spring' is not synonymous witlil death," the editorial ment: "The protection of the Eighth Amendment does not concludes, noting that Clinton had ,sed the metaphor of end once a defendant has been validly convicted and sen­ spring as a time of renewal in his Inaugural Address. tenced ....[C] apital defendants may be entitled to further What did Clinton do to merit this response? On Jan. proceedings because of an intervening development even 22, he signed several executive orders that would further though they have been validly convicted and sentenced to liberalize abortion. Clinton overturned: death. . . [Texas] and the United States would impose a clear 1) The 1988 ban on abortions performedin military hospi­ line between guilt and punishment ....[S]u ch a division is tals, "if paid for entirely" with non-qepartment of Defense far too facile. What [Texas] and the United States fail to funds. I recognize is that the legitimacy of punishment is inextricably 2) The 1984 ban on using Agency for InternationalDevel­ interwined with guilt. " opment (AID) funds to finance orgaI1izations that promote Justices Blackmun, Stevens, and Souter, on executive abortion overseas. clemency: " 'The government of the United States has been 3) The ban on fetal tissue experimentation. Tissue, emphatically termed a governmentof laws, and not of men. glands, and organs are cut out or "scooped out" of live fetuses, It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the sold and used as implants. It takes the g1ands of several fetuses laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal for each brain implant for patients with Parkinson's disease. right.' (Marbury v. Madison [1803]). If the exercise of a There are no studies indicating lasting positive results from legal right turns on 'an act of grace' [the majority's definition such implants, although Clinton's order claims that research of clemency-ed.] then we no longer live under a govern­ into major diseases has been "hampe�d" by the ban. ment of laws." 4) The so-called Gag Rule which prohibited federal dol-

EIR February 5, 1993 National 61 lars from going to clinics in which physicians or other staff planning programs in foreign nations." provided "nondirective counseling" to patients about abor­ Clinton's memorandum on the Gag Rule says that it "en­ tion. This affected only clinics receiving tax dollars. To dangers women's lives and h¢alth ...and interferes with Planned Parenthood's 923 clinics nationwide and other facili­ the doctor-patient relationship by prohibiting information that ties, the term "counselor" means any staff member available. medical professionals are otherwise ethically and legally re­ In the past, the clinics have used teenage "counselors" to sell quired to provide to their patients." This amounts to an en­ abortion to pregnant teens and boast of their own repeated dorsement of the queer view of the late Margaret Sanger and abortions. other eugenics fanatics, that pregnancy is a disease--espe­ In a fifthmemoran dum, directed to the secretary of health cially, of course, when it occurs to poor women. and human services, Clinton asked that the Food and Drug Administration promptly be instructed to review the ban on Civil rights and right to Ufe importing RU-486, the abortion pill, for personal use, and The New York Times, long an apologist for the U.N.'s assess initiatives to promote its "testing, licensing, and manu­ depopulation programs, had a concerned comment on the facturing in the United States." The abortion lobby has said meaning of the Vatican editorial rebuking Clinton's actions. it wants to use RU-486 as the once-a-month pill in schools. The quick response, they wrote, may mean that Pope John Despite publicity about its being cheaper than surgical abor­ Paul II is preparing for a direct challenge to Clinton. tion, and allowing a woman to have an abortion in the "privacy On the eve of Clinton's :inauguration, Cardinal John of her home," the fact is, the French Health Ministry warns O'Connor, the former head of the National Conference of the procedure must be done in a hospital or clinic prepared for Catholic Bishops Life Committee, articulated a major policy interventions. Feminists are themselves critical ofthe chemi­ stand for the Catholic Church on the occasion of a Life Mass cal abortion's health hazards. at St. Patrick's Cathedral in NeJwYork . O'Connor, in effect, called for an alliance of the civil rights and pro-life move­ Malthusians pleased ments as he compared the waYl in which the Dred Scott deci­ In contrast to the response of the Vatican, U.N. officials sion of 1854 denied that slaves were persons just as the 1973 see the U. S. as resuming its international leadership in cut­ Roe v. Wade decision denied that the unborn were persons ting back Third World populations. Nafis Sadik, executive under the law. O'Connor said that two great Americans­ director of the United Nations Population Fund, told the Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King-were martyred New York Times that Clinton's repeal of the ban on aid to for their devotion to the principles of Christian love and the international family-planning programs involving abortion, sacredness of life, and they would have opposed the growing was a major step toward Washington's re-joining the U.N. death culture in America toda�. Other Catholic spokesmen program. As a result ofthis decision, she said, it will "proba­ have said that since the Vatican was criticized for not having bly mean that the United Nations would receive money to spoken out enough against the Nazis, it cannot make the expand the number of clinics in Nigeria, Ghana, and a half­ mistake of failing to attack the death lobby today. dozen other African countries." What Clinton has wiped out is the 1984 "Mexico City Policy" of President Ronald Reagan. This had expanded on a limitation in AID funding which is written into law as the Documentation Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The law bans non-govern­ mental organizations that receive U.S. funds from using those funds "to pay for the performance of abortions as a method of family planning, or to motivate or coerce any 'Dr. King, and :the cause person to practice abortions." Before 1984, organizations of life, will prevail' like Planned Parenthood could benefitfrom U. S. government largesse for their overseas popUlation control programs as long as they could show that they had "other" funds to bank­ What fo llows are excerpts fr om the homily of Cardinal John roll their abortion activities. While the Reagan-Bush "pro­ O'Connor, archbishop of New York, on Jan. 17, St. Patrick's life" curbs were largely hypocritical, especially under the Cathedral in New York, commemorating the 20th anniversa­ convinced malthusian Bush, and all too easy to circumvent, ry of Roe v. Wade: Clinton is signaling moves toward massive increases in fund­ ing for radical population-control measures against the It seems to me appropriate th�t during this Mass, before all world's poor. else, we should remind oursdlves that within a handful of "Moreover," he continues, in a sentence that suggests hours we will have a new President and vice president of the new legislation may be on the way to reverse even the tooth­ United States. Regardless of :whatever differences anyone less anti-abortion protections of the 1961 law, "they have here may have with the philosophical, political, ideological, undermined efforts to promote safe and efficacious family moral, spiritual, or religious cQllvictions of ournew President

62 National EIR February 5, 1993 and vice president, it is surely incumbent upon us, as citizens who love our - land, as Christians who love all, to commit ourselves to prayer, to ask that our President and vice presi­ dent be inspired with the Holy Spirit to govern wisely, justly, compassionately. It is incumbent on us, as well, to pray in a special way that the cause of human life will be enhanced during the years ahead, that everyone will be treated with dignity, and the sacredness of every human person will be recognized in law and in fact, whether that human person is still in the womb of its mother, is dying of cancer, is in a wheelchair, is retarded, blind, or crippled. We will pray consistently in the years ahead that every human person will be recognized as made in the image and likeness of Almighty God and supported by the government, which, as Thomas Jefferson never tired of reminding us, exists only for the defense of the people. Today's gospel once again focuses on John the Baptist. ...Probably that which is best known about John the Baptist is that when Herod Antipas, who was the son of Herod the Cardinal John O'Connor: "We will praYj consistently in the years Great who slaughtered the Innocents in an effort to put the ahead that every human person will be r cognized as made in the image and likeness of Almighty God ...." Christ Child to death, took as his wife his own sister-in-law, and lived with her incestuously, John the Baptist, totally unafraid, singled out Herod, a man of immense power, and legitimate fe ar, understandable fear , on the part of blacks in said it was not lawful for him to do this. To John the Baptist the United States, that now they wouldI be hunted down .. .. I that was basic. He didn't care what happened to him. It J ames Farmer, the founder of the Co gress of Racial Equality was his responsibility to articulate the truth, to distinguish ...talks vividly about what happened on the day that the between good and evil and to preach what he believed he had Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and how he and been sent to preach. many others were instantly rushed t cover. Fear swept the On the contrary, Herod was terrifiedto be so singled out. land and, as a result, violence. WitHin days 43 people were He saw John the Baptist as a major political threat. .' .. killed subsequent to the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Herod was ...concer ned that there would be a revolution, King. Violence always begets fear knd fear always begets an insurrection and he would be overthrown. This is why violence. . . . Herod cast John the Baptist into prison and this is why, on This is a terrible equation and itI is particularly terrible the pretext of having made a promise to his unlawful wife, when we recognize that those places which were once so he had John beheaded. free from fear have now lost their security. I've told various It is particularly appropriate, I think, for us to reflecton groups of people, for example, abou�'one of our finest hospi­ this on a day when we, in a very special way, remind our­ tals. It is a Catholic hospital that takJs care of those who are selves of the sadness ushered into our society by that tragic terminally ill with cancer. ...HoJ would you feel if you decision of the 22nd of January, 1973 that we refer to, often or a loved one were en route to tHat facility and learned casually, as the Roe v. Wade decision of the Supreme Court. what its medical director recently told me-that the major There is another reason for reflecting on the difference insurance carrier for this terminal �ancer facility has told between those who are fearful and those who are fearless. him, "You're keeping people alive t60 long. lf you continue Tomorrow we officially celebrate the birthday of the Rev. doing this, you will lose your insurance and you won't be Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , who was born on the 15th of able to get it anywhere else." January and assassinated on the 4th of April. In thinking What security one used to have in a hospital! One went about the increasing meaning of Dr. King to American life, to a hospital to be treated with gentleness, to be treated as a in reading more and more of his life, of his sayings, of his patient, one suffering, to be treated ith love, to be cured if I philosophy, of his theology, in coming to have a deeper and a cure was possible, to maintained in dignity if cure was not deeper admiration for what this man really was, I re-read possible. Now must we fear the potbntial of legislation for some things with which I have been familiar for some time. euthanasia or assisted-suicide? The first of these was Jim Bishop's book The Day Lincoln . ..Why this haste on the part orI the media, or anyone Was Shot .... else, to introduce and then to hammer on this concept of the Abraham Lincoln was killed out of fear that he was going right-to-die? Why, in state after stake, is legislation being to revolutionize this country in ways that many detested. He introduced that would bring about a�sisted-suicide? Why is was killed out of fear, and then in tum there was great fear, such a prestigious journal as the N�w England Journal of

EIR February 5, 1993 National 63 Medicine suggesting that doctors take a new look at their which I didn't do. But the part that seems to me shocking is responsibilities, from which one could infer that doctors are that it should be considered an insult to suggest that the best supposed to act not as agents of life but as agents of death? known civil rights leader that we have had in the United Why all of this? States, and in my judgment op.e of the most admirable, had Mother Teresa and others would tell us that much of this he been familiar with the prob�em of abortion as we are today began on the 22nd of January , 1973 when the Supreme Court and the growing problems of euthanasia and assisted-suicide, rendered vulnerable those who had previously been in, what would have come down on the side of life! I think that's a ...we thought, was the safest place in the whole world, compliment ....I think one needs only tum to things that even safer than in the hospital-the mother's womb. The the Rev. Dr. King had to say. and some may argue that I'm Supreme Court decided.that they were no longer safe because taking him out of context, but I don't know that there is a they weren't people. They were tissues; they were blobs; sacred Biblical interpretation Of Dr. King's mind .... Dr. King says, for example, "Racism is a philosophy based on a contempt for life.!' He says, and to me this is a When people like the Rev. Dr.Martin marvelous quotation, "I am c<)nvincedthat if we succumb to the temptation to use violence in our struggle for freedom, Luther King lay down their livesJo r a unborn generations will be thtlre cipients of a long and deso­ cause, God doesn't abandon that late night of bitterness and ou.. chi ef legacy to them will be a cause. I believe with equalJervor that never-ending reign of chaos. "j Many women struggle to hiefr ee. That's a perfectly legiti­ the cause qfhuman life itselfwill mate struggle. They fear being restricted. They fear being prevail, that the Catholic Church's oppressed, and with good reaSon. But if we succumb to the teaching will be vindicated. �emptation to use violence ini our struggle for freedom, the violence of putting to death �n infant that seemed to be re­ stricting or oppressing or bur4ening us, then all we're going to do is to introduce chaos for out children and for the genera­ they were unidentifiable, undefinable. How can that be? That tions yet unborn. for all of those years in our country we accepted the reality I believe what Dr. Martil'\ Luther King, Jr. preached so that the unborn has the right to life and then suddenly by a powerfully and with no fear. jrhe night before he was killed stroke of the pen they are declared "non-persons," as by he gave a remarkable address, in which, apparently, he had the Dred Scott decision blacks were declared non-persons. a premonition of his death. lle openly said, "I'm not afraid That's the watershed. That's when death began to assault our of what's going to happen to! me. I've been on a top of the land. That's when we began to develop a contempt for human mountain and I've looked acr(i)ss into paradise." I don't think life. That's when we began to develop an ethic of death, there's any question but th� the day will come that Dr. rather than of life. Why? Out offe ar. . . . Martin Luther King's dream Will come true-that every hu­ I have never in my life, nor will I ever, denounce, con­ man person will be treated p ..ecisely as that, nothing more, demn, or even criticize a woman who has permitted her un­ nothing else; not as a black, not as a white, not as a brown, born babyto be put to death, because I know how many wom­ not as a yellow, not as a Jew, not as a Protestant, not as a en are motivated by fear .. ..This is why I announced ...in Catholic, not as a Hottentot, �ut as a human person. I believe 1984 ...and I will keep saying it: Any woman, of any color, that that will happen because ,when people like the Rev. Dr. of any age, of any religion who is pregnant and in need can Martin Luther King lay dowp their lives for a cause, God come to the Archdiocese of New York, can come to me per­ doesn't abandon that cause. 1 believe with equal fervor that sonally .. ..We will take care of her. We will help her to keep the cause of human life itself will prevail, that the Catholic her baby if she wishes to keep the baby. We will help her Church's teaching will be vi�dicated, that all of those who to have the baby adopted if that's what she wishes. We will have joined in the struggleto preserve, to protect human life, provide medical and hospital care. We will give her the sup­ to enhance human life, to remind us all of the worth and port and encouragement she needs to take away her fear. dignity and the sacredness of every human life-that they . . . Fear leads to violence-the death of an unborn will prevail, that they will overcome, as Dr. Martin Luther baby. This is why we offer the facilities we offer. . . . King, Jr. will one day overcoIlne despite the assassin's bullet. ...Last year, on this same day, I said that in my judg­ I am very deeply grateful lo all of you who are committed ment, and it's only my judgment, had abortion been legalized to the cause of human life. 11his, to me, is to be committed in his day the Rev . Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , would have to the cause of citizenship, to the cause of the goodness of taken the same attitude toward it that he took toward the our land, to the cause of the! very creation of what we call taking of any human life. I was severely criticized within the America, and surely it is to Ibe committed to the cause of next few days for putting words into Dr. King's mouth, driving fear from the human ilteart.

64 National EIR February 5, 1993 The 'October Surprise' scandal: anatomy of a coverup by Edward Spannaus

In our last issue (EIR , Jan. 29), we reported that the final In federal courts throughout the land, defendants are in­ report recently issued by the October Surprise Task Force of dicted and convicted on far less than this every day. Circum­ the U.S. House of Representatives was a detailed and thor­ stantial evidence, hearsay, and testimony from unreliable ough effort to discredit the "October Surprise" thesis, in the witnesses and even from convicted felons is used in court all form that that thesis has been presented in the popular media. the time[--especially in conspiracy cases]. It is usually left We also told you that the House report did not lay a glove up to a jury to sort out the contradictions between witnesses, on the thesis presented by EIR in the EIR Sp ecial Report and to determine the credibility of withesses and evidence. entitled "Treason in Washington." But here, by means of the bipartisan agreement which set up This week, we will show you exactly how the coverup such a rigid standard of proof, it was virtually guaranteed that was carried out in the task force's final report. That includes the October Surprise allegations woulq remain "unproven." lying about and ignoring evidence contained in FBI files It is important to realize that every clandestine operation which the task force refuses to publish on the grounds they generates its own official "cover story." In fact, "cover and are "classified," even though many of those same documents deception" is a built-in part of covert operations, sometimes have already published by EIR , after having been declassified going under the name of "operational security." and obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The adoption of such a rigid standatd of proof as used by The overall method of the House Task Force was as the House Task Force, in which statements by government follows: officials ate taken at face value while statements by outside 1) create a standard of-proof which results in most of the witnesses are almost automatically discredited, guarantees evidence being thrownout or discredited; that the "cover and deception" version will win out. 2) concentrate most of the investigation's resources on a . Let us look at some examples: few highly publicized "straw men" types of allegations, such • Regarding Jamshid Hashemi's story that he was in Ma­

as whether George Bush was in Paris in October 1980, while drid the summer of 1980 for meetings with Reagan-Bush cam­ side-stepping other, more important issues; and paign official William Casey and Iranian officials: The report

3) when caught in a bind, simply lie about the evidence, first concludes that his allegations are "fabrications," because in the hopes that most people will never see the actual docu­ "Jamshid has no documentary evidence to support his allega­ ments. tions, such as a passport, diaries, calend�, or receipts." Then, once having said that there is� nocredible evidence Standard of proof that Jamshid was in Madrid, the report goes on to say that The House report reached the overall conclusions that the task force has evidence "which tends to prove that Jam­ there is "no credible evidence" of any effort to delay the shid went to Madrid for an entirely different purpose." release of the American hostages held by Iran by persons • On the issue ofthe timing ofthe release ofthe hostages, associated with the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign, and that i.e., virtually at the moment of Reagan's inauguration in there is "wholly insufficientcredible evidence" even of com­ January 1981, the report blithely accepts at face value the munications between the campaign and Iranian officials dur­ reasons which provide a benign explanation for this, and ing the presidential race. ignores any explanation which would provide evidence of a The operative phrase here is "credible evidence." If fed­ conspiracy to delay the actual release until the inauguration. eral prosecutors were put to this standard of proof, there • There was the problem created by a statement made would be few inmates in federal prisons today. The task force by Cyrus Hashemi's one-time lawyer Elliot Richardson to simply threw much of the evidence out, on the grounds that CIA officialseight years ago, in which Richardson described a source was not deemed credible, or that the evidence was a 1979 real estate transaction involving the Iranian arms deal­ not independently corroborated, or that it was contradicted er and Casey (who later became CIA ¢hief under Reagan). by other evidence. The significance is that that would show a prior relationship

EIR February 5, 1993 National 65 Most of the task force's effortswere spent trying to prove or disprove the allegations made by various sources and jour­ nalists, many of already dubious credibility, about meetings House Tas k Fo rce lies alleged to have taken place injMadrid or Paris during 1980. about the evidence EIR has pointed out repeatedlr, that these highly publicized allegations of meetings involving Bush, Casey, and others involve much deliberate disinformation designed to discredit The House Task Force, in its final report, cites a tele­ the entire October Surprise story. Nevertheless, the task force type from the FBI New York officeto the FBI director reached one of its principal conclusions, namely, that there dated Jan. 22, 1981. The finalreport states: "On Janu­ was no attempt to delay the refuase of the hostages, solely on ary 22, 1981, two days . after the hostages were re­ the basis of disproving the exi tence of any meeting in Paris '� leased, the New York FBI office again requested au­ in October 1980. thority from the FBI director to discontinue the surveillance because it was believed that, in light of Cheating on the evidence the release of the hostages, no further investigative EIR's Special Report pres$ted ground-breaking work on purpose would be served by continuing the surveil­ what we regard as some of th� most compelling evidence of lance." an October Surprise plot; this pertained to the systematic and repeated obstruction efforts bj the Reagan-Bush administra­ What the FBI said tion to block the prosecution of Cyrus Hashemi and his attor­ But the teletype, obtained by EIR under the Free- ney and business partner J. St�ley Pottinger. dom of Information Act, read as follows: While the final report spehds over 100 pages on the al­ o 2205Z Jan 81 [receipt stamped 23 JAN 81] leged Paris and Madrid meetin s, it devotes a scant fivepages F[ro]m New York to the charges that actions by t�e� Reagan administrationwere To Director either compensation to Hashe\:ni for his role in delaying the Secret release of the hostages, or th8lt' they constituted a "coverup" Cyrus Hashemi; [deleted] of Hashemi's role. Authority for the court approved electronic surveil­ Significantly, while the fi�al report devotes a few pages lance in captioned matter expires on February 26, to the Hashemi case, it nevelr once mentions the fact that 1981. As the bureau is aware, captioned matter in­ Pottinger, a Republican and ,a former Justice Department volves electronic surveillance including Misur, Tesur official , was also under investligation and was almost indict­ [microphone and telephone surveillance] and [deleted] ed. The much more limited Sfmate Foreign Relations Com­ which is both a positive and a counter intelligence mittee October Surprise report issued in November did man­ collection. With the return of the hostages; the NYO age to discuss the fact that pro�ecution of Pottinger was being [FBI New York office] desires a ruling from FBIHQ contemplated, and that the FB! had lost the "Pottinger tapes." as to whether this surveillance should continue. This (It was the timely loss of tijese survelliance tapes which determination should appropriately be made after con­ enabled Pottinger to escape ihdictment in June 1984.) But tact with those agencies requesting the positive intelli­ these facts are omitted from the much more "thorough" gence collection initially to determine if those agencies House report. still have [an] interest to be secured by continued sur­ EIR's Special Report dOCUmented the obstruction of jus­ veillance. tice around the Hashemi and Pottinger cases step-by-step, The NYO desires to continue the electronic surveil­ and also revealed for the firsttilme that Pottinger and Hashemi lance from a counter standpoint until the expiration of were involved in shipping e�tremely lethal military equip­ the current authority. This would allow us to obtain ment to Iran in the early monttis of the Reagan-Bush adminis­ information regarding subject's continued dealings in tration, including mortars , bqmbs, machine guns, and C-4 the US to obtain weapons and military supplies for Iran plastic explosives capable of terrorist utilization. All of this which may be in violation of US laws. is totally suppressed in the House report. The first two allegations which the report does take up concerningthe Hashemi case Jrre issues highlighted by EIR . I between Casey and Hashemi. The task force, anxious to Shutting down the wiretaps disprove the existence of such a prior relationship, said it The first allegation is po�d this way: "It has been sug­ "found no evidence to corroborate" the statement by Richard­ gested that electronic surveill�ce of Cyrus Hashemi by the son, a former U.S. Attorney General, and therefore simply FBI was prematurely terminated by the Reagan administra­ decided to disregard it. tion to prevent Hashemi's assiStance to the Reagan campaign

66 National EIR February 5, 1993 in delaying the release of the hostages from becoming known which enabled him to avoid returning to the United States by 'killing the case against him.' " (The footnote to this and being arrested in May 1984. It wa� EIR which firstpub­ statement cites the EIR Sp ecial Report, p. 60, and Gary lished the evidence of the tip-off, which is contained in an Sick's October Surprise book.) FBl teletype dated May 16, 1984. The House report reviews the background to the surveil­ On May 16, the New York FBI sent a "priority" teletype lance: "The surveillance of Cyrus Hashemi was authorized to HQ, saying that Hashemi had canceled his May 16 Con­ under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for corde flight to New York. According to the FBI teletype, purposes of investigating Cyrus Hashemi's role in Iranian this occurred after Deputy Attorney General Lowell Jensen intelligence activities and the assassination of Ali Akbar Ta­ ordered the U.S. Attorney in New Y�rk to call Hashemi's batabai, a former Iranian diplomat." While the surveillance attorneys and to discuss the evidenc4 and the indictment, did not reveal any evidence related to the Tabatabai assassi­ "because he made such a commitment toHashemi 's attorney, nation, the report goes on, "it had revealed that Hashemi was former AG Elliot Richardson, who obv,iously has Cyrus Has­ involved in other foreign intelligence activities, particularly hemi notified." military parts procurement on behalf of Iran. " The May 16, 1984 FBI teletype continues in a rather The report then says that two days after the hostages were bitter vein: I released, the New York FBI office asked that the surveillance "[Deleted-Pottinger?] will also receive the above DOJ be discontinued because "no further investigative purpose [Department of Justice] sponsored co�rtesy then will be in­ would be served by continuing the surveillance" (see box). dicted with all subjects on May 29, 1:984 with US, SDNY Thus the surveillance was discontinued 11 days prior to its [United States Attorney, Southern Dlistrict of New York] scheduled expiration on Feb. 23, 1981. holding press conference same date to announce indictments. Afterrunning through some other plausible explanations, Obviously the arrests will not be ann()unced if they do not the report concludes that the termination of the wiretaps had occur which in final analysis is not l*ely. For informatio� nothing to do with efforts to "kill the case." FBIHQ, this case began on July 18, t1980 and because of The statement that the New York FBI wanted to end the above, results of a positive nature do n()tappear forthcoming surveillance is footnoted as follows: "Teletype from FBI New despite the mammoth investigative effort put forth thus far." York to FBI Director (Jan. 22, 1981)," and refers to pages This FBI message is unmentioned in the House report. 1,000- 1,001 of the report's appendix. But turning to the appendix, it states that this document is located in the "classi­ Hustled out of the country i fiedappendix ." There is more. EIR's Special Report charged that both However, EIR is in possession of an FBI teletype from Cyrus and Jamshid Hashemi "were tipped off about the im­ either Jan. 22 or 23 , 1981. What it says is exactly the opposite pending arrests." The House report makes no reference at of what the House report asserts! It shows that the New York all to the tip-off to Jamshid. However, a State Department FBI office wanted to continue the surveillance because it document just recently received by ;EIR-and obviously would allow them to continue to gather evidence about Has­ available as well to the House Task Forte-shows how Jams­ hemi's illegal arms dealings (see box). hid was not only tipped off by the CIA, but hustled out of The FBI was getting good stuff at this time. A later FBI the country to avoid arrest! prosecutive report (unmentioned in the House report) stated: The U.S. State Department memorandum summarizes a "During January and early February [deleted] and Cyrus June 11, 1984 meeting with "lawyer{ for Cyrus and Reza Hashemi engaged in telephonic negotiations, as well as con­ Hashemi and Stanley Pottinger." (Cy�s Hashemi's lawyer ferences in their office, with [deleted] . These conversations handling "greymail" negotiations at . that time was Elliot related to walkie-talkies, bazookas, machine guns, anti-tank Richardson.) : rockets, and Howitzer cannons. Quantities of purchase, loca­ The memorandum includes the following statement: tions for inspection, price, effort and manner of shipment, "-Jamshid Hashemi-Cyrus' s brother-has 'dealings' federal stock numbers, all were discussed in late January with CIA operatives. One of his CIA contactstold him, sever­ and up to February 13, 1981, with the conversations later al weeks ago, that he had to leave the U.S. immediately. When confirmedby telex. " he demurred, the CIA representative took him to Dulles air­ You can bet that somebody wanted the wiretaps shut port, where Hashemi bought a plane �cket, and put him on down. But, it was not the New York FBI office, which a plane to Europe. Soon thereafter, R�za Hashemi-a third by all appearances was diligently and aggressively pursuing brother-was 'tricked' into returning �o the States and was the Hashemi investigation. picked up in an elaborate sting operatiPn organized by Cus­ toms. The lawyers implied that the ctAknew Customs and The tip-otT Justice were planning to arrest Reza, �d therefore spirited The second allegation along this line which the House Jamshid out of the country before h� could be arrested as report takes up is the alleged "tip-off' to Cyrus Hashemi well."

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enators 'soft' on Clinton He creates credit and that was the issue Mitchell (D-Me.) has indicated to nomineesS , says Armey from the very first. Who is going to Clinton that there are no more than 30 Rep. Richard Armey (R-Tex.), chair­ control the allocation of credit in our senaton;in favor of removing the ban. man of the House Republican Confer­ society? That is the whole question." There :is even less support in the ence, admonished Republican sena­ The Federal Reserve was sup­ House,i although few members want tors for letting Clinton nominees for posed to be the fiscal agent of the U . S. this to qome to a vote, putting them on cabinet posts slip by without a critical Treasury. "But it is the other way record.' "Congress would rather let the look, in comments at a luncheon with around now. It [the Fed] is the one that Executive branch and the Joint Chiefs editors at the Washington Times. The is coining and printing our bills, not the of Staff work it out, if at all possible, reason they treated them with kid Treasury," he said. said R�p. George "Buddy" Darden gloves, Armey said, was that "a lot of U.S. dollar bills used to say "U.S. (D-Ga.), a member of the House these senators are so afraid of the press Treasury note ," Gonzalez pointed out, ArmedlServices Committee. labeling them as mean-spirited and ob­ but now there are only Federal Reserve Aspin has been trying to get the structionist. " notes. And the Federal Reserve "is a military to agree to some plan, warn­ Armey is calling for a more aggres­ creature of the commercial banks who ing tha� the courts could end the ban. sive posture toward the Clinton admin­ compose it. And it has gotten so al­ On Jan� 25, Clinton met with the Joint istration, and he urged Republicans to mighty and powerful-independent is Chiefs i for "consultations," which work together on economic issues. the word they use-that the Congress were d�scribed as "respectful , frank, that created it has no control over it. " cordial. honest." Gonzalez warned that, unless the situ­ Senate Armed Services Commit­ ation were changed quickly, the coun­ tee Chhirman Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) is try would be "doomed." also concernedabout the Clinton poli­ eturn to Hamiltonian cy. "If1there is a strategy there," said policiesR , says Gonzalez Nunn, "it hasn't been explained to Speaking on the floorof the House on me .... I think something is funda­ Jan. 25, House Banking Committee mentally flawed when the men and Chairman Henry Gonzalez (D-Tex.) Opposition to 'gays' women in the military have an issue called for a return to Hamiltonian in military is strong that is vital to them, that affects them, credit policies, pin-pointing the "inde­ There is little support in Congress for and they never have been heard pendent" nature of the Federal Re­ Clinton's promise to overturn a ban from."; Nunn has scheduled hearings serve as the source of the country's against homosexuals in the military, on the issue in March. Senate Republi­ fiscal problems. Defense Secretary Les Aspin indi­ cans � preparing a bill which would In formulating the Bank of the cated in an interview on "Face the Na­ keep the ban in place. United States, Gonzalez said, "Alex­ tion" on Jan. 24. In a memo to Clinton ander Hamilton did brilliant work. He leaked to news agencies, Aspin pro­ took a country that was in extreme posed a six-month period in which lift­ debt. He took a governmentthat said, ing the ban would be worked out with 'We will assume the debts of the states the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He warned onzalez urges Clinton in the Revolutionary War, ' and had no that if Clinton signed an executive or­ toG rel�ase BNL documents money. And he worked out a beautiful der lifting the ban, Congress would House iBanking Committee Chairman system that did work. In fact, it en­ likely vote to restore the ban. Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Tex.) called abled us to proceed fairly successfully "The point you've got to under­ on President Clinton to facilitate re­ until the late 20th century. " stand," said Aspin, "is that as a practi­ lease documents requested by the Gonzalez referred to Lincoln's at­ cal matter we are not going to be able comm�f ttee from the White House and tempts to regain control over monetary to force this down the throat of the sever federal agencies concerning policy. "He could see the forces that Congress. If the Congress doesn't like goverrimentinvolvement in the scan­ were coming in and taking over, as it, it isn't going to happen." He added, dal surrounding the Banca Nazionale they always are ," said Gonzalez. The "The votes in the Congress, if it comes del LalVoro, in a letter to Clinton on

problem, he indicated, was the control to it, are overwhelmingly against it. " Jan. 22. The BNL, among other of credit. "A banker creates money. Senate Majority Leader George charges, allegedly funneled credits to

68 National EIR February 5, 1993 Iraq before the Persian Gulf war. poor, the middle class, and the on the sidelines while brutality of such At the behest of the Bush White wealthy," charged House Minority unspeakable prop(>rtions ravages a House, these agencies had refused to Whip Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) people in our own backyard," said tum over classified documents to his The Republicans want, instead, Hoyer. The resolution has over 90 committee on the pretext that Gonza­ concrete budget cuts . "From a stand­ sponsors in the H04se. A similar reso­ lez had harmed national security by point of getting our cooperation on the lution has been intrpduced in the Sen­ placing some classifieddocuments re­ Republican side, to come out first ate by Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D­ lated to the Bush administration's pre­ boldly for tax increases without any Ariz.). war policy toward Iraq into the Con­ kind of talk about how we're going to At hearings on Jan. 26, Rep. Frank gressional Record. reduce the expenditure side, gee, that McCloskey (D-Ind.) blasted the Vance­ In comments on the House floor just drives our people up the wall," Owen negotiations with the Serbians in on Jan. 25, Gonzalez indicated that commented House Minority Leader Geneva as worse tltan Neville Cham­ the campaign against FBI chief Wil­ Bob Michel (R-Ill.). berlain's appeasme* of Hitler. Calling liam Sessions launched by the outgo­ An energy tax will face an uphill U.N. negotiations;, sanctions, and ing Attorney General William Barr fight. "The lobbying community peacekeeping "not adequate to deal was partially due to the cooperation would probably eat it alive," warned with genocidal Ser� aggression," Mc­ Sessions had given his committee in Rep. Robert Matsui (D-Calif.), a Closkey said that the aggression both its investigation. member of the House Ways and "defies the will and conscience of the Means Committee . world," and "threa�ns ournational se­ curity, which remains tied to the well­ being of Europe and to the credibility of the U.N., NATO, and the CSCE. linton'S proposed energy "Genocidal Serb aggression can­ taxC creates uproar utrage against Serbian not be stopped by diplomacy," Mc­ Interviewed on "Meet The Press" on genocideO is growing Closkey warned. "It is fueled bya viru­ Jan. 24, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the out­ lent nationalism that has much in Bentsen indicated that the Clinton ad­ going chairman of the congressional common with Naz�sm, that has about ministration is considering a "broad­ Commission on Security and Cooper­ as much in comm�n with legitimate based energy tax." If applied through­ ation in Europe , introduced on Jan. 21 Serb interests as Nazism did to Ger­ out the energy industry, as Bentsen a House Resolution calling for mea­ man interests, and (hat responds to di­ suggested, such a tax would include sures to stop Serbian genocide. It calls plomacy much as Nazism did." The the oil and gas, natural gas, electric for lifting the armsembargo on Bosnia negotiations have given Serb national­ utility, coal, and nuclear power indus­ and seeks enforcement of the U.N. ists "18 more months to murder and tries. On Jan. 26, Clinton hedged, no-fly zone by a multinational coali­ rape .. ..Geneva �ffers only the illu­ saying that "no decision has been tion. It demands that irregular forces sion of a peace process. This illusion ' made" on the tax. in Bosnia either withdraw or be sub­ plays into the hands of the Serb aggres­ Reactions from Capitol Hill were ject to the authority of the government sors, betrays their victims, lulls west­ immediate. "These taxes are inher­ of Bosnia-Hercegovina, or be dis­ ern publics into a false sense of hope ently unpopular," warned Sen. Sam banded and disarmed with their weap­ and security, and fuels further Serb ag­ Nunn (D-Ga.) "I think there are a ons placed under effective interna­ gression." In faCti, McCloskey ex­ whole lot of questions to be ad­ tional monitoring. The resolution also plained, Vance am� Owen were worse dressed, and only the President can calls for the use of military force, if than Chamberlain, since he appeased make that case." required, to effect the delivery of hu­ Hitler before the war and the Holo­ Republicans attacked Clinton for manitarian aid; to ensure unimpeded caust, not after it had become known. breaking his campaign pledge for a access to camps, prisons, and deten­ Witnesses at th¢ hearings reported middle-class tax cut. "It took less than tion centers in Bosnia-Hercegovina; on systematic mass executions and one week in office for the Democrats and the establishment of an interna­ use of rape by the Serbians to demor­ to abandon a middle-class tax cut and tional war crimes tribunal to bring to alize and brutalize the Muslim popula­ replace their campaign pledge with a trial those responsible for war crimes. tion and to force them to abandon their tax increase on everyone-for the "I believe that we can not remain territory.

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The group in question is the Environmental Peltier and provoking a shootout at the reser­ Investigation Agency (EIA), a private ani­ vation. His lawyer, William Kunstler, de­ mal rights group in Washington, D.C. that nounced (j)'Hara's demonstration as unprec­ Mary Sue Terry resigns wants a U.S. boycott of Faroese fish and edented �d amounting to intimidation. other imports. O'Hara r�plied in a newspaper commentary to run for Va. governor EIA had doctored videos of Faroe whal­ and has launched an unusual public relations Virginia Attorney General Mary Sue Terry ing, such as adding blood-looking dye to effort, in¢luding interviews and coordinat­ resigned Jan. 27 in order to run for the Dem­ the water and falsifying whale screams­ ing lobbying and letter-writing. ocratic nomination for governor this year. duplicity that had been exposed by the ice­ I Her leading opponent for the nomination, landic filmmaker Magnus Gudmundsson. I LaRouche Democrat Nancy Spannaus, Putting People First presented ABC with whom EIR interviewed last week, issued a evidence of EIA's fakery before the broad­ statement on Jan. 28: "Terry is the modem cast, to no avail. ClintQn holds firm on day equivalent of lise Koch, the wife of a On Jan. 24, the CBS News broadcast 'gays� in the military Nazi concentration camp guard who collect­ "60 Minutes" ran an expose on animal rights ed the skins of murdered prisoners and made movement terrorism. The segment was President iBiII Clinton reiterated his inten­ them into lampshades. Terry's pride is in about Dr. Michael Carey, a researcher at tion on Jab. 25 to issue an Executive Order her efficiencyin killing death row prisoners, Louisiana State University whose painless permittint homosexuals to serve in the mili­ even those with substantial claims to inno­ re&earch with cats to dev.elop ways to heal tary accOljding to press reports. cence ....A creature who embraces such head injuries was shut down by an animal Earlier, according to National Public bestiality, embraces all forms of corruption, rights smear campaign. Radio, thie Joint Chiefs of Staff met with and turnsits back on justice in all areas. This Anchor Mike Wallace exposed Neal Secretary · of Defense Les Aspin to voice explains her attitude toward federal pen­ Barnard of the People for the Ethical Treat­ their objections, and the Jan. 21 issue of sioners, and workers who strike for their ment of Animals (PeTA) as a quack, and the New York Times reported that Clinton rights, or might lose their jobs due to envi­ animal rights activists were denounced on planned to direct Aspin to prepare an execu­ ronmental lunacy. the program as anti-science "zealots" who tive orde� that would liftthe ban on homo­ "Terry's corruption in the LaRouche had issued death threats to Carey's wife. sexuals in the military sometime in the next case also stands out. We see her working Some material for the expose was supplied few months. with the 'Gordon Liddy of Loudoun Coun­ by Putting People First, which is urging peo­ In the meantime, the military will be ty ,' Don Moore, against LaRouche . . . ple to floodCBS with support letters. directed I�ss formally to stop asking recruits [and] permitting, if not encouraging, perju­ about their sexual orientation and discharg­ ry on the part of her assistant John Russell, ing peopJle from the armed services when on Moore's behalf. And perhaps most outra­ they are found to be homosexuals. These geous, we see her sending her political ene­ would be !two of the points in the executive order, on¢e it were in practice. mies in the LaRouche movement to prison FBI agent aims to for outrageous sentences-including Mi­ chael Billington, for 77 years. Once again, stop Peltier retrial the sadism of an lise Koch." FBI agent for North Dakota and Minnesota Nicholas O'Harais at the center of controver­ Pedophile police chief sy conceming a retrialfor Indian leaderLeo­ nard Peltier. The Minneapolis press has had gets CAN's support extensive coverage of the Peltier case in the Robert \\jadman, the Omaha, Nebraska po­ ABC pushes animal rights; last month, because O'Hara led a controver­ lice chie( who was nationally exposed as sial demonstration at the Minneapolis City a key cOll.spirator in the Omaha, Nebraska CBS exposes fraud Council of 60 FBI agents and sheriffs oppos- · pedophile ring in the The Franklin Coverup The Jan. 22 broadcast of ABC News's 20/ ing a motion for a new trialfor Peltier who is by attornllyJohn W. DeCamp, is now under 20 program featured a lying account from servingtwo consecutive life sentences for the renewed scrutiny in his current job as police an animal rights group depicting a hunt for shooting deaths of two FBI agents at Pine chief of Wilmington, North Carolina. Wad­ pilot whales in the Faroe Islands in the North Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1975. man leftOmaha under a cloud fromthe scan­ Atlantic as anti-animal and endangering the This is not O'Hara's first brush with contro­ dal and \\las police chief of Aurora, Illinois pilot whale species. For centuries, the versy: He is known to have been involved in when the lmok exposing him was published. 47,000inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have the coverup of an Omaha, Nebraska-based Now he is again denying the child molesta­ used pilot whales for food. "This is a shame­ national pedophile ring associated with the tion char�s, which, the Wilmington Morn­ ful example of the media being taken in by scandal aroundthe Franklin Credit Union. ing Star q:ports, a "growing faction" in the

propaganda from an opportunistic animal The evidence for a new trial is compel­ Wilmingljon Police Department believes rights group," Kathleen Marquardt, chair­ ling and the FBI has been charged over the may be tr1le. The paper reports "internaldis­ man of Putting People First told the press. years with fabricating the evidence against content" in the department.

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• THOMAS PICKERING has been tapped by President Clinton to become the U .S.,ambassador to Rus­ Unlike in the past, Wadman is now pub­ sia. Pickering, /l Republican, was licly blaming his troubles on Lyndon ambassador to the U.N. during the LaRouche's movement and saying that ev­ LaRouche attorneys cite Gulf war and is presentlyambassador eryone who accuses him is part of the to India. His predecessor in Moscow LaRouche movement, which widely publi­ prosecutor's dishonesty was Democrat RobertStra uss. cized efforts of investigators to uncover the truth about the ring. The Morning Star Ramsey Clark and Odin Anderson, attor­ • THE NEW YORKTimes editori­ quotes extensively in Wadman's defense neys for political prisoner Lyndon a1ized that Jack ('!'Dr. Death") Kevor­ from the Cult Awareness Network's Cyn­ LaRouche, filedpapers in mid-January with kian fillsa gap in patient care,that can thia Kisser, who, according to the Star, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Rich­ only be "solved"; by the wider use of claims that "LaRouche followers typically mond, Virginia, strongly challengingprose­ suicide, on Jan. 15. "Legislators, the search for satanic rings, drug running cutor Kent Robinson's attempts to censor courts, and ethici$ts have already sup­ among prominent citizens and business con­ new evidence of LaRouche's innocence ob­ ported Americllll$' right to make that spiracies among Jews ... [to drum] up tained from thefederal governmentinvesti­ decision. Tragic�ly, that right-and more support." Kisser gets particularly ex­ gation of "Kidnappers, Inc." case and other the information tp supplement it-is ercised about churches which might work sources. still veryfar fromthe bedside." with LaRouche. Clark and Anderson argue that the gov­ Interestingly, the Star' s coverage in­ ernment first exploited its systematic non­ • THE CIA came under attack by cludes the fact that the Wilmington City production of exculpatory evidence to ob­ a gunman outside the Langley, Vir" Council hired Wadman in 1991, in spite of tain convictions of the LaRouche defen­ ginia headquarters on Jan. 25. The the charges, after receiving correspondence dants four years ago, then it fought tooth unidentified mal opened rifle fire fromthe Departmentof Justice. and nail to prevent evidentiary hearings on during the morni�g rush hourtraf fic, the 2255 motion to set aside LaRouche's killing two CIA employees and conviction, and now they want to take fur­ wounding three.'He was not appre­ ther advantage by sanitizing the appeals re­ hended and, despite many witnesses, cord of vital facts which forces the defen­ descriptions are sketchy at best. Richmond paper blasts dants to fightin a piecemeal fashion. The papers state that "it is the govern­ • GOV. LOW!:LLWEICKER of ADL 'thoughtcrime' laws ment which has been dishonest and has fla­ Connecticut sig ed an agreement In an editorial, ''Thoughtcrime,'' the Jan. grantly violated its constitutional obliga­ with the Pequot Indiansp to allow vid­ 20 issue of the Richmond Times-Dispatch tions during the entire course of this criminal eo slot machines on their reservation. declared that the "hate crime" laws, which prosecution. The governmentattorney liti­ The Pequot IndilUl side of the deal have been promoted nationally by the Anti­ gating this motion and appeal was the trial will be to pay $100million a year to Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, prosecutor who knowingly failed to produce the state or 25% qfthe casino's annu­ should be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Brady material and denied government al gross, whiche�er is greater. Court. The U . S. Supreme Court has agreed agents were involved in any 'politically mo­ to hear a challenge to the Wisconsin law, tivated' assault against the appellants .... • WILLIAM REILLY, outgoing which exists in some form in about 30 states. The spontaneous and unguarded remarks" Environmental Protection Agency The law enhances the penalties and senten­ of former Loudoun Sheriff's Lt. Donald administrator, o�ered the U.S. to ces for existing crimes that are committed Moore, a principal in the federal-state effort phase out methyl bromide, a widely out of "hate. " to jail LaRouche and former defendant in a used pesticide and fumigant, by the "Opinions do not leave fingerprints. A kidnapping-deprograrnmingtrial , "who was year 2000because it allegedly contri­ judge or jury frequently would have to rely, not aware that his conversations were being butes "between S and 10% of ozone not even on hearsay, but on 'hear­ recorded by the government, shred the fab­ depletion." There is no immediately thought' -testimony by someone else who ric of misrepresentations woven by Mr. available a1ternatlive for most of the professed to know what was going through Robinson and his co-prosecutors. Mr. Rob­ uses of methyl b�mide. There is also the defendant's mind during a crime, often inson's self-serving desire to keep the new no evidence of o2lOnedepletion. on the basis of disparaging general remarks and relevant evidence, derived from the made in the past. . . . The law already pun­ government's own wiretaps and consensual • THE U.S. OONFERENCE of ishes assault, because laws exist to punish monitorings, out of this appeal is not a legal­ Mayors has redistributed to the Clin­ those who violate the rights of others. . . . ly valid reason to oppose judicial notice in ton adrninistratiollits compendium of The right to hold opinions, no matter how this case. The frankstatements by Donald over 7 ,000public works projects that repugnant they may be, is a fundamental Moorerevealing illegal and improper activi­ are all designed land approved, but . . . human right. A community should be ties directed against the appellants during which lack funding. The projects are able to express outrage at despicable at­ the time period relevant to this case . . . estimated to require $27 billion, and tacks-and defend the citizens from them­ powerfully support the appellants' argu­ will create 400,000jo bs. without tramping" over the Constitution. ments advanced in this appeal. "

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Nationalize the Federal Reserve

As the new Clinton administration tries to figure out Classical education, and to repair the damage caused how to get the personal computers in the White House by 20 years of the counterculture. working, and fumbles to come up with a policy to deal 3) Generation of state credit fo r the purpose of with the economic crisis-which, the President avers , productive investment (not sp eculation). Contrary to is rather "worse" than he had thought-the demands widely held belief, such credit generation is not infla­ for a trade war "solution" are growing. tionary . Astronomical debt service is currently being The Commerce Department has already levied pu­ paid to prop up hyperinflated real estate values and nitive tariffs of up to 109% on steel imports from 19 other economic fictions; but under a Hamiltonian poli­ countries. The Big Three automakers are said to be cy, credit is prioritized for productive purposes. It pays preparing a sweeping "dumping" suit against Japan , for itself, as the unemployeCll are put back to work at which would lead to import duties on all Japanese pas­ productive jobs, restoring th� tax base. senger cars . The Treasury Department has begun a 4) Forging alliances among sovereign nation­ policy review that could lead to a tenfold increase (from states committed to the sameiconceptions, in the inter­ 2.5% to 25%) in the tariff paid on foreign minivans and ests of all. This is the critical: component in waravoid­ sport utility vehicles. ance today . The nations ofl the former Soviet bloc, This is no solution to the problems facing Ameri­ and of the Third World, must be drawn into such a ca's economy; it is the road to depression and world community of nations, to defuse the conflicts that are war, just as it was in the 1930s. The only viable solution spiralling out of control. is that proposed by jailed economist Lyndon LaRouche: The Federal Reserve stands squarely in the way Revive the American System of political economy. of these necessary reforms. Answerable to no elected That means, as the first item on the agenda, nationaliz­ officials, but only to the commercial banks and the ' ing the Federal Reserve . gnomes of international finance, it is inimical ' to the Ironically, today's "protectionist" measures are be­ American System. ing pushed by the same forces who proclaim them­ Yet during the televised debates of last fall's presi­ selves the advocates of "free trade"-for other coun­ dential election campaign , Bill Clinton, George Bush, tries, that is. The ugly calls for trade war have nothing and Ross Perot all vowed that they would do nothing to do with the American System of political economy , to change its "independent" status. Of the presidential the system of Alexander Hamilton and Henry Carey , candidates, only Lyndon LaRouche called for its na­ which made the United States a great industrial and tionalization. agricultural power. Hamilton and Carey sought to pro­ As we report in this issue, Rep. Henry Gonzalez tect domestic industry, to be sure; but they did so within (D-Tex.) addressed the Ho�se of Representatives on an overall policy conception that would further eco­ Jan. 25, calling for a restoration of Hamiltonian poli­ nomic development worldwide: cies, and for congressional c(j)ntrol over the Fed. "It has 1) Government promotion of large-scale infra­ gotten so almighty and powerful-' independent' is the structure projects. Today, this means investment to word they use-that Congr�ss that created it has no rebuild collapsing roads, rails, bridges, waterways, control over it," he said. and to develop the infrastructure of the 21st century , We heartily concur. Prelsident Clinton has got to such as maglev trains and state-of-the-art water man­ take on the Federal Reserve, if he wants to make his agement. domestic reforms work. As long as he insists that the 2) Encouraging a rising scientific and technologi­ Fed is in the vital interests pf the United States, this cal level of the economy, and rising productivityof the country will head deeper and deeper into depression labor fo rce. This must include a crash effort to restore , and the threat of world war .•

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